"Insulator Elements" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Nucleic acid regulatory sequences that limit or oppose the action of ENHANCER ELEMENTS and define the boundary between differentially regulated gene loci.
| Descriptor ID |
D038101
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.080.689.390 G05.360.080.689.390 G05.360.340.024.420
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| Concept/Terms |
Insulator Elements- Insulator Elements
- Element, Insulator
- Elements, Insulator
- Insulator Element
Boundary Elements- Boundary Elements
- Boundary Element
- Element, Boundary
- Elements, Boundary
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Insulator Elements" by people in Profiles.
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Fujioka M, Ke W, Schedl P, Jaynes JB. The homie insulator has sub-elements with different insulating and long-range pairing properties. Genetics. 2025 04 17; 229(4).
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Fujioka M, Nezdyur A, Jaynes JB. An insulator blocks access to enhancers by an illegitimate promoter, preventing repression by transcriptional interference. PLoS Genet. 2021 04; 17(4):e1009536.
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Fujioka M, Mistry H, Schedl P, Jaynes JB. Determinants of Chromosome Architecture: Insulator Pairing in cis and in trans. PLoS Genet. 2016 Feb; 12(2):e1005889.
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Fujioka M, Sun G, Jaynes JB. The Drosophila eve insulator Homie promotes eve expression and protects the adjacent gene from repression by polycomb spreading. PLoS Genet. 2013 Oct; 9(10):e1003883.