The inactivation of the π gene in chicken erythroblasts of adult lineage is not mediated by packaging of the embryonic part of the α-globin gene domain into a repressive heterochromatin-like structure

Epigenetics

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1481-1488

  Ioudinkova, Elena S ^a   Ulianov, Sergey V ^b   Bunina, Daria ^b   Iarovaia, Olga V ^a   Gavrilov, Alexey A ^a,c   Razin, Sergey V ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chromosome conformation capture; Developmental switch; Enhancer; Histone acetylation; Histone modification; Repressed chromatin domain; globin genes

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN; ERYTHROBLAST; GENE INACTIVATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

EID: 83255184460     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.6.12.18215     Document Type: Article

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