CTCF-dependent enhancer-blocking by alternative chromatin loop formation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 51, 2008, Pages 20398-20403

  Hou, Chunhui ^a   Zhao, Hui ^a,c   Tanimoto, Keiji ^b   Dean, Ann ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta globin genes; Epigenetics; Insulator; Locus control region; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GLOBIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

BETA-GLOBINS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; LOCUS CONTROL REGION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 58149498240     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0808506106     Document Type: Article

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