Prevalent, Dynamic, and Conserved R-Loop Structures Associate with Specific Epigenomic Signatures in Mammals

Molecular Cell

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 167-178

  Sanz, Lionel A ^a   Hartono, Stella R ^a   Lim, Yoong Wearn ^a   Steyaert, Sandra ^b   Rajpurkar, Aparna ^a   Ginno, Paul A ^a,c   Xu, Xiaoqin ^a   Chédin, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; RNA; CHROMATIN; DNA; STOP CODON; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRAND; DNA TEMPLATE; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONVERSION; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; INTERACTIONS WITH DNA; INTERACTIONS WITH RNA; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; K-562 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NIH 3T3 CELL LINE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; STOP CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; DNA; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84978536132     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2016.05.032     Document Type: Article

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