CTCF mediates the cell-type specific spatial organization of the kcnq5 locus and the local gene regulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ren, Licheng ^a,d   Wang, Yang ^b   Shi, Minglei ^b   Wang, Xiaoning ^a,c   Yang, Zhong ^a,c   Zhao, Zhihu ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; KCNQ5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL KCNQ; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KCNQ5 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; CHROMOSOME; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; KCNQ POTASSIUM CHANNELS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84863071981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031416     Document Type: Article

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