Role of CCCTC binding factor (CTCF) and cohesin in the generation of single-cell diversity of Protocadherin-α gene expression

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

Volumn 109, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 9125-9130

  Monahan, Kevin ^a,d   Rudnick, Noam D ^a   Kehayova, Polina D ^b   Pauli, Florencia ^c   Newberry, Kimberly M ^c   Myers, Richard M ^c   Maniatis, Tom ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA looping; Stochastic gene expression

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COHESIN; PROTOCADHERIN ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADHERINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84861917541     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205074109     Document Type: Article

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