CTCF-binding sites flank CTG/CAG repeats and form a methylation-sensitive insulator at the DM1 locus

Nature Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 335-343

  Filippova, Galina N ^a   Thienes, Cortlandt P ^a   Penn, Bennett H ^a   Cho, Diane H ^a   Hu, Ying Jia ^a   Moore, James M ^a   Klesert, Todd R ^a,b   Lobanenkov, Victor V ^c   Tapscott, Stephen J ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DNA BINDING; DNA METHYLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CELL-FREE SYSTEM; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NUCLEAR MATRIX; NUCLEOSOMES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0034935016     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng570     Document Type: Article

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