CTCF-mediated chromatin loops enclose inducible gene regulatory domains

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Oti, Martin ^a,b   Falck, Jonas ^a   Huynen, Martijn A ^a   Zhou, Huiqing ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Chromatin looping; CTCF; Enhancers; Gene regulation; Inducible genes; Transcription factory

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CTCF; CCCTC-BINDING FACTOR; CHROMATIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN LOOP; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; PRIMARY CELL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; K-562 CELL LINE; MCF-7 CELL LINE;

CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MCF-7 CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 85007578386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-2516-6     Document Type: Article

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