The scs and scs' insulator elements impart a cis requirement on enhancer-promoter interactions

Molecular Cell

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 301-308

  Krebs, Jocelyn E ^a   Dunaway, Marietta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; CONFORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETICS; MICROINJECTION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSACTIVATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MICROINJECTIONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OOCYTES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); XENOPUS;

EID: 0031615110     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80030-1     Document Type: Article

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