CTCF is conserved from Drosophila to humans and confers enhancer blocking of the Fab-8 insulator

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-170

  Moon, Hanlim ^a   Filippova, Galina ^b   Loukinov, Dmitry ^a   Pugacheva, Elena ^a   Chen, Qi ^c   Smith, Sheryl T ^c   Munhall, Adam ^b   Grewe, Britta ^d   Bartkuhn, Marek ^e   Arnold, Rüdiger ^e   Burke, Les J ^e   Renkawitz Pohl, Renate ^d   Ohlsson, Rolf ^f   Zhou, Jumin ^c   Renkawitz, Rainer ^e   Lobanenkov, Victor ^a  

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

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Abdominal B; CTCF; Drosophila; Enhancer blocking; Fab 8

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTCF; PROTEIN FAB 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 20044379936     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400334     Document Type: Article

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