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Jennifer E Phillips-Cremins1, Michael E G Sauria, Amartya Sanyal

  • 1Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

Cell
|May 28, 2013
PubMed
まとめ

クロマチンの組織は細胞発達の過程で変化し,CTCF,Mediator,コヘシンなどの構造タンパク質が異なるスケールでゲノム構造を形作る. この3Dアーキテクチャは,遺伝子調節と細胞運命を決定する上で極めて重要です.

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