The Fab-8 boundary defines the distal limit of the bithorax complex iab-7 domain and insulates iab-7 from initiation elements and a PRE in the adjacent iab-8 domain

Development

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 779-790

  Barges, Stéphane ^a   Mihaly, Jozsef ^a,d   Galloni, Mireille ^a,e   Hagstrom, Kirsten ^b,f   Müller, Martin ^a,b   Shanower, Greg ^b   Schedl, Paul ^b   Gyurkovics, Henrik ^c   Karch, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bithorax complex; Chromatin domain boundary; Drosophila; Insulator; Polycomb Response Element

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BODY PATTERNING; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; MALE; MUTATION;

ARACHNIDA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0034010530     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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