The chromatin insulator CTCF and the emergence of metazoan diversity

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

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17507-17512

  Heger, Peter ^a   Marin, Birger ^a   Bartkuhn, Marek ^b   Schierenberg, Einhard ^a   Wiehe, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, HOMEOBOX; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84867912686     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111941109     Document Type: Article

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