An insulator element and condensed chromatin region separate the chicken β-globin locus from an independently regulated erythroid-specific folate receptor gene

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 4035-4048

  Prioleau, Marie Noëlle ^b   Nony, Pascale ^c   Simpson, Melanie ^a   Felsenfeld, Gary ^a  

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

^b CNRS   (France)

^c Universite de Nantes   (France)

Author keywords

globin locus; Boundary; Condensed chromatin; Domain; Methylation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; FOLIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT E; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICK EMBRYO; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; DNA METHYLATION; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLOBINS; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033565868     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.14.4035     Document Type: Article

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