The clustering of CpG islands may constitute an important determinant of the 3D organization of interphase chromosomes

Epigenetics

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 951-963

  Gushchanskaya, Ekaterina S ^a,b,c   Artemov, Artem V ^b,d   Ulyanov, Sergey V ^a   Logacheva, Maria D ^b   Penin, Aleksey A ^b   Kotova, Elena S ^e   Akopov, Sergey B ^e   Nikolaev, Lev G ^e   Iarovaia, Olga V ^a,c   Sverdlov, Eugene D ^e   Gavrilov, Alexey A ^a,c   Razin, Sergey V ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c LIA 1066 French Russian joint Cancer Research Laboratory   (France)

^d INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^e SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

4C; CpG island; CTCF; Genome spatial organization; Housekeeping gene

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN PERMEASE REGULATOR LIKE 3; PERIPLAKIN; PROTEIN; RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS PROTEIN; TNF RECEPTOR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHICKEN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 14; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; ANIMAL; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; ERYTHROBLAST; GENETICS; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; CHROMOSOMES; CPG ISLANDS; ERYTHROBLASTS; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84903748389     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.28794     Document Type: Article

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