'Insulator bodies' are aggregates of proteins but not of insulators

EMBO Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 440-445

  Golovnin, Anton ^a,b   Melnikova, Larisa ^a   Volkov, Ilya ^c   Kostuchenko, Margarita ^a   Galkin, Alexander V ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSULATOR BODIES; MODIFIER OF MDG4 PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN MDG4; SUPPRESSOR OF HAIRY WING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SILENCER ELEMENT;

EID: 43049088847     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2008.32     Document Type: Article

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