General

D’Alessio, J.A., K.J. Wright, and R. Tjian. 2009. Shifting players and paradigms in cell-specific transcription. Mol. Cell 236:924–931.

Ptashne, M. 2005. Regulation of transcription: From lambda to eukaryotes. Trends Biochem. Sci. 30:275–279.

Regulation of Transcription Initiation

Juven-Gershon, T., and J.T. Kadonaga. 2010. Regulation of gene expression via the core promoter and the basal transcriptional machinery. Dev. Biol. 339:225–229.

Pan, Y., C.J. Tsai, B. Ma, and R. Nussinov. 2010. Mechanisms of transcription factor selectivity. Trends Genet. 26:75–83.

Ross, W., and R.L. Gourse. 2009. Analysis of RNA polymerase-promoter complex formation. Methods 47:13–24.

Wade, J.T., and K. Struhl. 2008. The transition from transcriptional initiation to elongation. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev. 18:130–136.

The Structural Basis of Transcriptional Regulation

Christensen, K.L., A.N. Patrick, E.L. McCoy, and H.L. Ford. 2008. The six family of homeobox genes in development and cancer. Adv. Cancer Res. 101:93–126.

Elhiti, M., and C. Stasolla. 2009. Structure and function of homodomain-leucine zipper (HD-Zip) proteins. Plant Signal Behav. 4:86–88.

He, X., L. He, and G.J. Hannon. 2007. The guardian’s little helper: MicroRNAs in the p53 tumor suppressor network. Cancer Res. 67:11,099–11,101.

Huffman, J.L., and R.G. Brennan. 2002. Prokaryotic transcription regulators: More than just the helix-turn-helix motif. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 12:98–106.

Posttranscriptional Regulation of Gene Expression

Breitkreutz, D., L. Braiman-Wiksman, N. Daum, M.F. Denning, and T. Tennenbaum. 2007. Protein kinase C family: On the crossroads of cell signaling in skin and tumor epithelium. J. Cancer Res. Clin. Oncol. 133:793–808.

Deng, S., G.A. Calin, C.M. Croce, G. Coukos, and L. Zhang. 2008. Mechanisms of microRNA deregulation in human cancer. Cell Cycle 7:2643–2646.

Shi, X.B., C.G. Tepper, and R.W. deVere White. 2008. Cancerous miRNAs and their regulation. Cell Cycle 7:1529–1538.