Loss of the insulator protein CTCF during nematode evolution

BMC Molecular Biology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 84-

  Heger, Peter ^a   Marin, Birger ^a   Schierenberg, Einhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCCTC BINDING FACTOR; INSULATOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTCF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DEPLETION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA; NEMATODA; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; VERTEBRATA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HELMINTH PROTEINS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEMATODA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 70349866023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2199-10-84     Document Type: Article

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