Discovery of MLL1 binding units, their localization to CpG Islands, and their potential function in mitotic chromatin

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Bina, Minou ^a   Wyss, Phillip ^a   Novorolsky, Elise ^a   Zulkelfi, Noorfatin ^a   Xue, Jing ^a   Price, Randi ^a   Fay, Matthew ^a   Gutmann, Zach ^a   Fogler, Brian ^a   Wang, Daidong ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell division; CGG repeats; Chromatin structure; Cis elements; Codes in DNA; CpG islands; FMR1; Gene bookmarking; Gene regulation; HOXA; HOXB; HOXC; HOXD; Human genome; Mammalian genomes; Mitosis; MLL; MLL1; Regulatory codes; TREs; Trithorax response elements

Indexed keywords

MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA 1 PROTEIN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLAND; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENOME ANALYSIS; HOX GENE; HUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DROSOPHILA TRITHORAX; MAMMALIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; CPG ISLANDS; DNA; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RNA POLYMERASE II;

EID: 84890995292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-927     Document Type: Article

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