The insulator binding protein CTCF positions 20 nucleosomes around its binding sites across the human genome

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Fu, Yutao ^a   Sinha, Manisha ^b   Peterson, Craig L ^b   Weng, Zhiping ^a,b,c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; HISTONE H2A; INSULATOR BINDING PROTEIN CTCF; CCCTC BINDING FACTOR; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; HISTONE; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA MICROARRAY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NUCLEOSOME; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

EUKARYOTA;

BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, HUMAN; HISTONES; HUMANS; MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; NUCLEOSOMES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 48249153426     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000138     Document Type: Article

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