CTCF: The protein, the binding partners, the binding sites and their chromatin loops

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1620, 2013, Pages

  Bastiaan Holwerda, Sjoerd Johannes ^a   de Laat, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chromatin loops; Cohesin; CTCF; Nuclear organization; Transcription

Indexed keywords

GENE; GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; RNA;

CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; COHESIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; IGF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN B;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BETA-GLOBINS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84891476248     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0369     Document Type: Review

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