The 3′ region of the chicken hypersensitive site-4 insulator has properties similar to its core and is required for full insulator activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Arumugam, Paritha I ^a   Urbinati, Fabrizia ^a   Velu, Chinavenmeni S ^a   Higashimoto, Tomoyasu ^a   Grimes, H Leighton ^a   Malik, Punam ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR;

ACETYLATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN HYPERSENSITIVE SITE 4 ELEMENT; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CLONAL VARIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN METHYLATION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSGENE; 3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHICKEN; CYTOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; LENTIVIRINAE; PROTEIN MOTIF;

LENTIVIRUS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC VECTORS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSGENES;

EID: 70349185586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006995     Document Type: Article

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