Roles of chromatin insulator proteins in higher-order chromatin organization and transcription regulation

Nucleus

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Vogelmann, Jutta ^a   Valeri, Alessandro ^a   Guillou, Emmanuelle ^c   Cuvier, Olivier ^c   Nollmann, Marcelo ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

^c Université Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin insulator; Chromosome structure; Higher order chromatin structure; Long range interactions; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN INSULATOR PROTEIN; CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL CYCLE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; EUCHROMATIN; GENOME ANALYSIS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80054711589     PISSN: 19491034     EISSN: 19491042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/nucl.2.5.17860     Document Type: Review

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