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Functional characterization of a novel Ku70/80 pause site at the H19/Igf2 imprinting control region.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 May 2005
Katz David J, Beer Michael A, Levorse John M, Tilghman Shirley M
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The imprinted expression of the H19 and Igf2 genes in the mouse is controlled by an imprinting control center (ICR) whose activity is regulated by parent-of-origin differences in methylation. The only protein that has been implicated in ICR function is the zinc-finger protein CTCF, which binds at multiple sites within the maternally inherited ICR and is required to form a chromatin boundary that inhibits Igf2...
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