CTCF and cohesin help neurons raise their self-awareness

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

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 8799-8800

  Dekker, Job ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; COHESIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

CELL INTERACTION; CHROMATIN; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; CADHERINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84861839177     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1206195109     Document Type: Note

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