Insulator dynamics and the setting of chromatin domains

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 523-532

  Fourel, Geneviève ^a   Magdinier, Frédérique ^a   Gilson, Éric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SILENCER ELEMENT; SILENCER GENE; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2542437656     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20028     Document Type: Review

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