Differential contribution of cis-regulatory elements to higher order chromatin structure and expression of the CFTR locus

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 3082-3094

  Yang, Rui ^a,b   Kerschner, Jenny L ^a,b,d   Gosalia, Nehal ^a,b   Neems, Daniel ^b   Gorsic, Lidija K ^a,b   Safi, Alexias ^c   Crawford, Gregory E ^c   Kosak, Steven T ^b   Leir, Shih Hsing ^a,b   Harris, Ann ^a,b  

^a Lurie Children's Research Center   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; COHESIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CFTR GENE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CACO-2 CELL LINE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; INSULATOR ELEMENT; METABOLISM;

CACO-2 CELLS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CYSTIC FIBROSIS TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84965102334     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1358     Document Type: Article

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