Effective Blocking of the White Enhancer Requires Cooperation between Two Main Mechanisms Suggested for the Insulator Function

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Kyrchanova, Olga ^a   Maksimenko, Oksana ^a   Stakhov, Viacheslav ^a   Ivlieva, Tatyana ^a   Parshikov, Alexander ^a   Studitsky, Vasily M ^a,b   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; EYE; FAB 7 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CROSS; GYPSY GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WHITE GENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84880828649     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003606     Document Type: Article

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