Chromatin insulators: a role in nuclear organization and gene expression

J Yang, VG Corces - Advances in cancer research, 2011 - Elsevier
Chromatin insulators are DNA–protein complexes with broad functions in nuclear biology.
Based on the ability of insulator proteins to interact with each other, it was originally found …

Surviving an identity crisis: a revised view of chromatin insulators in the genomics era

LH Matzat, EP Lei - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Gene Regulatory …, 2014 - Elsevier
The control of complex, developmentally regulated loci and partitioning of the genome into
active and silent domains is in part accomplished through the activity of DNA-protein …

Convergence of topological domain boundaries, insulators, and polytene interbands revealed by high-resolution mapping of chromatin contacts in the early …

MR Stadler, JE Haines, MB Eisen - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
High-throughput assays of three-dimensional interactions of chromosomes have shed
considerable light on the structure of animal chromatin. Despite this progress, the precise …

Chromatin insulator factors involved in long-range DNA interactions and their role in the folding of the Drosophila genome

J Vogelmann, A Le Gall, S Dejardin, F Allemand… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Chromatin insulators are genetic elements implicated in the organization of chromatin and
the regulation of transcription. In Drosophila, different insulator types were characterized by …

Genome-wide mapping of boundary element-associated factor (BEAF) binding sites in Drosophila melanogaster links BEAF to transcription

N Jiang, E Emberly, O Cuvier… - Molecular and cellular …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Insulator elements play a role in gene regulation that is potentially linked to nuclear
organization. Boundary element-associated factors (BEAFs) 32A and 32B associate with …

Genome organization regulates nuclear pore complex formation and promotes differentiation during Drosophila oogenesis

NM Kotb, G Ulukaya, A Chavan… - Genes & …, 2024 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Genome organization can regulate gene expression and promote cell fate transitions. The
differentiation of germline stem cells (GSCs) to oocytes in Drosophila involves changes in …

Regulation of the BMP Signaling-Responsive Transcriptional Network in the Drosophila Embryo

L Deignan, MT Pinheiro, C Sutcliffe, A Saunders… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The BMP signaling pathway has a conserved role in dorsal-ventral axis patterning during
embryonic development. In Drosophila, graded BMP signaling is transduced by the Mad …

BEAF Regulates Cell-Cycle Genes through the Controlled Deposition of H3K9 Methylation Marks into Its Conserved Dual-Core Binding Sites

E Emberly, R Blattes, B Schuettengruber… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Chromatin insulators/boundary elements share the ability to insulate a transgene from its
chromosomal context by blocking promiscuous enhancer–promoter interactions and …

The insulator BEAF32 controls the spatial-temporal expression profile of the telomeric retrotransposon TART in the Drosophila germline

O Sokolova, V Morgunova, TV Sizova… - …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Insulators are architectural elements implicated in the organization of higher-order
chromatin structures and transcriptional regulation. However, it is still unknown how …

Chromatin insulators: lessons from the fly

BV Gurudatta, VG Corces - Briefings in functional genomics and …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Chromatin insulators are DNA–protein complexes with broad functions in nuclear biology.
Drosophila has at least five different types of insulators; recent results suggest that these …