Gene insulation. Part II: Natural strategies in vertebrates

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 885-898

  Amouyal, Michèle ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

globin; apolipoprotein; CTCF; IFN ; Igf2 H19; lac repressor; repeats

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEINS; CTCF; IGF2/H19; LAC REPRESSOR; REPEATS;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENES; HEMOGLOBIN; RNA; YEAST;

TRANSCRIPTION;

APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN A4; APOLIPOPROTEIN A5; APOLIPOPROTEIN C3; BETA GLOBULIN; COHESIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GROWTH HORMONE; HLA DQA1 ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; LYSOZYME; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN P16; RNA POLYMERASE II; SOMATOMEDIN B; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSFER RNA; UVOMORULIN;

BINDING AFFINITY; CELL NUCLEUS MATRIX; CENTROMERE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUCHROMATIN; FACIOSCAPULOHUMERAL MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; METAGENOMICS; MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TELOMERE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONES; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE III; RNA, TRANSFER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFIII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; VERTEBRATES; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 78650351488     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: 12086002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/O10-111     Document Type: Review

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