A complex chromatin landscape revealed by patterns of nuclease sensitivity and histone modification within the mouse β-globin locus

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 5234-5244

  Bulger, Michael ^a   Schübeler, Dirk ^a,e   Bender, M A ^a   Hamilton, Joan ^a   Farrell, Catherine M ^b   Hardison, Ross C ^c   Groudine, Mark ^a,d  

^a USA   (United States)

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

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; HISTONE; NUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCUS; LANDSCAPE; METHYLATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MODIFICATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKENS; CHROMATIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROCYTES; GLOBINS; HISTONES; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPLEEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0042091987     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.15.5234-5244.2003     Document Type: Article

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