The establishment of active chromatin domains

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 509-514

  Bell, A ^a,b   Boyes, J ^a,c   Chung, J ^a   Pikaart, M ^a   Prioleau, M N ^a   Recillas, F ^a   Saitoh, N ^a   Felsenfeld, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBULIN; DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; CHROMATIN; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION;

EID: 0032460064     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.509     Document Type: Conference Paper

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