Enhancer Regulation of Transcriptional Bursting Parameters Revealed by Forced Chromatin Looping

Molecular Cell

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 237-247

  Bartman, Caroline R ^a,b   Hsu, Sarah C ^a,b   Hsiung, Chris C S ^a,b   Raj, Arjun ^c   Blobel, Gerd A ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ERYTHROBLAST; ERYTHROID CELL; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GLOBIN GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL BURSTING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ERYTHROPOIESIS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CHROMATIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLOBINS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ERYTHROBLASTS; ERYTHROPOIESIS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84962648703     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.03.007     Document Type: Article

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