A dominant chromatin-opening activity in 5 hypersensitive site 3 of the human β-globin locus control region

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 562-568

  Ellis, James ^a,e   Tan Un, Kian C ^b,e   Harper, Alex ^c,e   Michalovich, David ^d,e   Yannoutsos, Nikos ^d,e   Philipsen, Sjaak ^d,e   Grosveld, Frank ^d,e  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Locus control region; globin

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FRAGMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; FETUS; FETUS LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GLOBIN GENE; LIVER CELL NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA PRIMERS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030050402     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00388.x     Document Type: Article

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