First Exon Length Controls Active Chromatin Signatures and Transcription
Bieberstein NI, Oesterreich F, Straube K, Neugebauer KM. First Exon Length Controls Active Chromatin Signatures and Transcription. Cell Reports 2012, 2: 62-68. PMID: 22840397, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.05.019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGeneral transcription factorsTranscription start siteFirst exonShort first exonExon-intron organizationGenome-wide analysisHistone modifications H3K4me3Active chromatin signatureRNA polymerase IIRole of splicingTransgenic cell linesChIP-seq dataLong first exonChromatin signaturesGene architectureExon-intron boundariesHigh expression levelsAntisense transcriptionTranscriptional outputPolymerase IIH3K4me3 levelsGene activityTSS usageTranscription factorsExon length