RNA interference machinery influences the nuclear organization of a chromatin insulator

Nature Genetics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 936-941

  Lei, Elissa P ^a   Corces, Victor G ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROSOMAL PROTEIN 190; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; HELICASE; INSULATOR PROTEIN; RM62 HELICASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARGONAUTE GENE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GYPSY GENE; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR ORGANIZATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 33746472891     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1850     Document Type: Article

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