Dividing the empire: Boundary chromatin elements delimit the territory of enhancers

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Udvardy, Andor ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Copy number dependence; Insulator; Locus control region; Position effect; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CHROMATIN; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPRESSION; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HUMANS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 0033521532     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.1.1     Document Type: Review

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