Making connections: Insulators organize eukaryotic chromosomes into independent cis-regulatory networks

BioEssays

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 163-172

  Chetverina, Darya ^a   Aoki, Tsutomu ^b   Erokhin, Maksim ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a   Schedl, Paul ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bithorax complex; Boundary elements; Chromosomal domains; Developmental regulation; Insulator bypass; Insulators; Non autonomy

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; INSULATOR PROTEIN; PROTEIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENT; DIFFERENTIATION; ENHANCER REGION; EUKARYOTE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SILENCER ELEMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS;

EUKARYOTA;

CHROMOSOMES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84892445699     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201300125     Document Type: Article

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