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Chriz, a chromodomain protein specific for the interbands of Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes.
Chromosoma - 1 May 2005
Gortchakov A A, Eggert H, Gan M, Mattow J, Zhimulev I F, Saumweber H
Abstract excerpt
Polytene interphase chromosomes are compacted into a series of bands and interbands reflecting their organization into independent chromosomal domains. In order to understand chromosomal organization, we set out to study the role of proteins that are selective for interbands. Here we describe the Drosophila melanogaster chromodomain protein Chriz that is coimmunoprecipitated with the zinc finger protein Z4. Both...
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