Transcription Factors

Section A: Basic Machinery of Transcription 1. RNA polymerase II transcription machinery 2. Regulatory transcription factors and cis-regulatory regions 3. Chromatin structure and regulation of transcription 4. DNA binding by transcription factors Section B: Cell Regulatory Systems 5. Regulation of transcription during the cell cycle 6. Regulation of transcription by extracellular signals Section C: Systemic Regulation 7. Transcriptional regulation of early lymphocyte development 8. Transcriptional integration of hormone and metabolic signals by nuclear receptors 9. Developmental control by Hox transcriptional regulators and their cofactors 10. Tissue-specific regulation by transcription factors 11. Neural transcription factors 12. Abnormal transcription factors produced by chromosome translocations in human cancer