Close encounters of the 3C kind: Long-range chromatin interactions and transcriptional regulation

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 297-309

  Palstra, Robert Jan Theo Sijtse ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

globin; Chromosome conformation capture; Long range activation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; CCCTC BINDING FACTOR; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; ERYTHROID KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; NUCLEAR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NF E2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMATIN LOOP; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLOBINS; CHROMATIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 70349542588     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp016     Document Type: Review

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