Human β-Globin Locus Control Region HS5 Contains CTCF- and Developmental Stage-Dependent Enhancer-Blocking Activity in Erythroid Cells

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 8946-8952

  Tanimoto, Keiji ^a   Sugiura, Akiko ^a   Omori, Akane ^a   Felsenfeld, Gary ^b   Engel, James Douglas ^c   Fukamizu, Akiyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING SITE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); ERYTHROID CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLOBINS; HUMANS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0344629446     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.24.8946-8952.2003     Document Type: Article

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