The Zw5 protein, a component of the scs chromatin domain boundary, is able to block enhancer-promoter interaction

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2098-2107

  Gaszner, Miklos ^a   Vazquez, Julio ^b   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin domain boundary; Drosophila; Enhancer promoter interaction; Heat shock locus

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ZW5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033567325     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.16.2098     Document Type: Article

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