HS5 of the human β-globin locus control region: A developmental stage-specific border in erythroid cells

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 4489-4500

  Wai, Albert W K ^a   Gillemans, Nynke ^a   Raguz Bolognesi, Selina ^b   Pruzina, Sara ^c   Zafarana, Gaetano ^a   Meijers, Dies ^a   Philipsen, Sjaak ^a   Grosveld, Frank ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c 3 The Close ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Border; Globin; HS5; Insulator; LCR

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; ERYTHROID CELL; FETUS; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERSENSITIVE SITE 5; LACZ GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLOBINS; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GALLUS GALLUS; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0043239344     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg437     Document Type: Article

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