The Pioneer Transcription Factor FoxA Maintains an Accessible Nucleosome Configuration at Enhancers for Tissue-Specific Gene Activation

Molecular Cell

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-91

  Iwafuchi Doi, Makiko ^a   Donahue, Greg ^a   Kakumanu, Akshay ^b   Watts, Jason A ^a   Mahony, Shaun ^b   Pugh, B Franklin ^b   Lee, Dolim ^a   Kaestner, Klaus H ^a   Zaret, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FOXA1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FOXA2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; FOXA3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3GAMMA; HISTONE; NUCLEOSOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LIVER; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-ALPHA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-BETA; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3-GAMMA; HISTONES; LIVER; MICE; NUCLEOSOMES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84962450094     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.03.001     Document Type: Article

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