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RNA-Seq Analysis of Differential Gene Expression in Electroporated Chick Embryonic Spinal Cord
Published on: November 1, 2014
[Spatial organization of the chicken alpha-globin gene domain in cells of different]
Abstract:
We have developed a technique for mapping the sites of DNA attachment to the nuclear matrix by hybridization of nuclear matrix DNA with an oligonucleotide array. The latter was made by immobilization of 60-mer oligonucleotides distributed within the area under study with a 2 Kb step on nylon filter. Using this approach we have analyzed the mode of interaction of a 100 Kb fragment of chicken chromosome 16 including the alpha-globin gene domain with the nuclear matrix. The 40 Kb DNA loop including all alpha-globin genes was detected in erythroid cells. One of the borders of this loop colocalized with the previously mapped MAR element and CTCF-dependent enhancer-blocking element. Also, a long transcribed area was found to be preferentially associated with the nuclear matrix. The spatial organization of the area under study in lymphoid cells was drastically different from this observed in erythroid cells.
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