Chromatin insulators and long-distance interactions in Drosophila

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-14

  Kyrchanova, Olga ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Architectural protein; Chromatin insulator; Drosophila; Enhancer blocking; Long range interaction

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY ELEMENT ASSOCIATED FACTOR PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSULATOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN CP190; PROTEIN DCTCF; PROTEIN GAF; PROTEIN SU(HW); PROTEIN ZW5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN BEAF; PROTEIN ELBA1; PROTEIN ELBA2; PROTEIN ELBA3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF;

BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN INSULATOR; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

EID: 84891017304     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2013.10.039     Document Type: Review

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