Pairing between gypsy insulators facilitates the enhancer action in trans throughout the Drosophila genome

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 9283-9291

  Kravchenko, Elena ^a   Savitskaya, Ekaterina ^a,b   Kravchuk, Oksana ^a   Parshikov, Alexander ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a   Savitsky, Mikhail ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE INSERTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETROPOSON; TRANSACTIVATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 27144437559     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.21.9283-9291.2005     Document Type: Article

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