Long-range function of an intergenic retrotransposon

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 12992-12997

  Pi, Wenhu ^a   Zhu, Xingguo ^a   Wu, Min ^a,b   Wang, Yongchao ^a   Fulzele, Sadanand ^a   Eroglu, Ali ^a   Ling, Jianhua ^a,c   Tuan, Dorothy ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

BAC transgenic mice; Globin gene switching; NF Y bound at CCAAT motif; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; CCAAT BINDING FACTOR; GAMMA GLOBIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR Y; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2;

ARTICLE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS 9; ERYTHROID CELL; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; GERM CELL; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; LOXP SITE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPOSON; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CCAAT-BINDING FACTOR; DNA, INTERGENIC; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELLS; GATA2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, SWITCH; GENETIC LOCI; GLOBINS; HUMANS; INTEGRASES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RETROELEMENTS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SEQUENCE DELETION; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

HUMAN ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 77955627648     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004139107     Document Type: Article

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