Effective Blocking of the White Enhancer Requires Cooperation between Two Main Mechanisms Suggested for the Insulator Function

• Olga Kyrchanova ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Kyrchanova, Oksana Maksimenko

  Affiliation Group of Transcriptional Regulation, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Oksana Maksimenko ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Olga Kyrchanova, Oksana Maksimenko

  Affiliation Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Viacheslav Stakhov,

  Affiliation Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Tatyana Ivlieva,

  Affiliation Group of Transcriptional Regulation, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Alexander Parshikov,

  Affiliation Group of Transcriptional Regulation, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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• Vasily M. Studitsky,

  Affiliations Laboratory of Epigenetic Regulation of Transcription, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Department of Pharmacology, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Pavel Georgiev

  * E-mail: georgiev_p@mail.ru

  Affiliation Department of the Control of Genetic Processes, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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