CTCF genomic binding sites in Drosophila and the organisation of the bithorax complex

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1211-1222

  Holohan, Eimear E ^a,c   Kwong, Camilla ^a   Adryan, Boris ^a,d   Bartkuhn, Marek ^b   Herold, Martin ^b   Renkawitz, Rainer ^b   Russell, Steven ^a   White, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; HISTONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN CTCF; CTCF PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; PRIMER DNA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA MICROARRAY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENES, INSECT; GENOME, INSECT; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 34547627357     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030112     Document Type: Article

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