Promoter suppression in cultured mammalian cells can be blocked by the chicken β-globin chromatin insulator 5′HS4 and matrix/scaffold attachment regions

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 312, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 963-974

  Villemure, Josée France ^a,b   Savard, Nathalie ^a,b   Belmaaza, Abdellah ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromatin boundaries; Epigenetic; Position effect; Silencing; Transgene

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0035812647     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2001.5015     Document Type: Article

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