The locus control region is necessary for gene expression in the human β-globin locus but not the maintenance of an open chromatin structure in erythroid cells

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 5992-6000

  Reik, Andreas ^a   Telling, Agnes ^a   Zitnik, Galynn ^a   Cimbora, Daniel ^a   Epner, Elliot ^a,c   Groudine, Mark ^a,b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0031708415     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.10.5992     Document Type: Article

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