Mechanisms and proteins involved in long-distance interactions

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Maksimenko, Oksana ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chromatin insulators; Chromatin looping; Cis regulation; Enhancers; Long range interactions; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BMI1 PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; LDB1 PROTEIN; LMO2 PROTEIN; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN COHESIN SA1; PROTEIN COHESIN SA2; SMC1 PROTEIN; SMC3 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR KLF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TAL1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZAD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABD B GENE; APOPTOSIS; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER MOTIF; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ERYTHROPOIESIS; GENE; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; TRANSPOSON; UBX GENE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84897683223     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00028     Document Type: Review

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