Nature and function of insulator protein binding sites in the Drosophila genome
Schwartz Y, Linder-Basso D, Kharchenko P, Tolstorukov M, Kim M, Li H, Gorchakov A, Minoda A, Shanower G, Alekseyenko A, Riddle N, Jung Y, Gu T, Plachetka A, Elgin S, Kuroda M, Park P, Savitsky M, Karpen G, Pirrotta V. Nature and function of insulator protein binding sites in the Drosophila genome. Genome Research 2012, 22: 2188-2198. PMID: 22767387, PMCID: PMC3483548, DOI: 10.1101/gr.138156.112.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInsulator proteinsQuantitative genome-wide analysisInsulator elementsGenome-wide analysisEnhancer-blocking assaysRepressive histone methylationDrosophila chromatinDrosophila genomeEukaryotic genomesCombinatorial bindingH3K27me3 marksHistone methylationRNAi knockdownAdjacent genesGenome expressionFunctional characterizationAssociated proteinsGenomeCultured cellsProteinSpecific regulationGenesMajor alterationsDifferent classesChromatin