Identification of a class of chromatin boundary elements

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7478-7486

  Cuvier, Olivier ^a   Hart, Craig M ^a   Laemmli, Ulrich K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REPORTER GENE;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0031724356     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.12.7478     Document Type: Article

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