Communication of genome regulatory elements in a folded chromosome

FEBS Letters

Volumn 587, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 1840-1847

  Razin, Sergey V ^a,b,c,d   Gavrilov, Alexey A ^a,c,d,e   Ioudinkova, Elena S ^a,c,d   Iarovaia, Olga V ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c LIA 1066 French Russian joint Cancer Research Laboratory   (France)

^d LIA 1066 French Russian Joint Cancer Research Laboratory   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Active chromatin hub Chromosome folding Nuclear matrix Macromolecular crowding

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENOME; HUMAN; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84878953434     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.04.027     Document Type: Review

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