Diverse transcriptional influences can be insulated by the Drosophila SF1 chromatin boundary

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4227-4233

  Majumder, Parimal ^a   Roy, Sharmila ^a   Belozerov, Vladimir E ^a   Bosu, Dimple ^a   Puppali, Meena ^a   Cai, Haini N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; FUSHI TARAZU PROTEIN; PROTEIN SF1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; EYE COLOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 67949097348     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp362     Document Type: Article

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