Description: Second five weeks. Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 153B, 154. Eukaryotic general transcriptional apparatus; sequence-specific promoter recognition; mechanisms of transcriptional activation and repression, including role of chromatin structure; transcription factors as targets of signal transduction pathways; transcription factors in embryogenesis. Concurrently scheduled with course C259B. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 2.0