The importance of controlling transcription elongation at coding and noncoding RNA loci

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 80, Issue , 2016, Pages 33-44

  Scruggs, Benjamin S ^a   Adelman, Karen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ARTICLE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84978681923     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: 19434456     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2015.80.027235     Document Type: Conference Paper

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