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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Jesse Raab
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-31105 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Raab Jesse R JR Chiu Jonathan J Zhu Jingchun J Katzman Sol S Kurukuti Sreenivasulu S Wade Paul A PA Haussler David D Kamakaka Rohinton T RT
The EMBO journal 20111115 2
Insulators help separate active chromatin domains from silenced ones. In yeast, gene promoters act as insulators to block the spread of Sir and HP1 mediated silencing while in metazoans most insulators are multipartite autonomous entities. tDNAs are repetitive sequences dispersed throughout the human genome and we now show that some of these tDNAs can function as insulators in human cells. Using computational methods, we identified putative human tDNA insulators. Using silencer blocking, transge ...[more]