The Idefix enhancer-blocking insulator also harbors barrier activity

Gene

Volumn 450, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 25-31

  Brasset, E ^a   Hermant, C ^a   Jensen, S ^a   Vaury, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Barrier; Boundary; Chromatin insulators; Drosophila melanogaster; Idefix

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RETROPOSON; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 72449127496     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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