Transcription factors / [edited by] J. Locker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section A, Basic machinery of transcription. RNA polymerase II transcription machinery -- Regulatory transcription factors and cis-regulatory regions -- Chromatin structure and regulation of transcription -- DNA binding by transcription factors -- Section B, Cell regulatory systems. Regulation of transcription during the cell cycle -- Regulation of transcription by extracellular signals -- Section C, Systemic regulation. Transcriptional regulation of early lymphohocyte development -- Transcriptional integration of hormone and metabolic signals by nuclear receptors -- Developmental control by Hox transcriptional regulators and their cofactors -- Tissue-specific regulation by transcription factors -- Neural transcription factors -- Abnormal transcription factors produced by chromosome translocations in human cancer.