The su(Hw) insulator can disrupt enhancer-promoter interactions when located more than 20 kilobases away from the Drosophila achaete-scute complex

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3443-3456

  Golovnin, Anton ^a,b   Gause, Maria ^a   Georgieva, Sofia ^a,b,c   Gracheva, Elena ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032939924     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.5.3443     Document Type: Article

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