Enhancer blocking by the Drosophila gypsy insulator depends upon insulator anatomy and enhancer strength

Genetics

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 787-798

  Scott, Kristin C ^a   Taubman, Aaron D ^a   Geyer, Pamela K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC MODEL; HISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EGG PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; VITELLOGENINS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032840462     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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