An insulator element located at the cyclin B1 interacting protein 1 gene locus is highly conserved among mammalian species.

Insulators are cis-elements that control the direction of enhancer and silencer activities (enhancer-blocking) and protect genes from silencing by heterochromatinization (barrier activity). Understanding insulators is critical to elucidate gene regulatory mechanisms at chromosomal domain levels. Her...

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Main Authors: Wataru Yoshida, Junko Tomikawa, Makoto Inaki, Hiroshi Kimura, Masafumi Onodera, Kenichiro Hata, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131204