Mechanisms in Transcriptional Regulation provides a concise discussion of the fundamental concepts in transcription and its regulation.

• Covers RNA polymerases, transcriptional machinery, mechanisms of transcriptional activation, the histone code hypothesis, the epigenetic control of transcription, and combinatorial control in signaling and development
• Features over 80 figures available to download online
• Chapters include comprehensive reading lists, boxes highlighting theoretical concepts and experimental methods and problems designed to build and test understanding