Tethering of CHROMATOR and dCTCF proteins results in decompaction of condensed bands in the Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes but does not affect their transcription and replication timing

Galina V. Pokholkova; Sergei A. Demakov; Oleg V. Andreenkov; Natalia G. Andreenkova; Elena I. Volkova; Elena S. Belyaeva; Igor F. Zhimulev

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0192634

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Tethering of CHROMATOR and dCTCF proteins results in decompaction of condensed bands in the Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes but does not affect their transcription and replication timing

Galina V. Pokholkova,

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5783-6456

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Sergei A. Demakov,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Oleg V. Andreenkov,

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Natalia G. Andreenkova,

Roles Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Elena I. Volkova,

Roles Methodology, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Elena S. Belyaeva,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Igor F. Zhimulev

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: zhimulev@mcb.nsc.ru

Affiliations Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMCB RAS), Novosibirsk, Russia, Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Novosibirsk, Russia
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Tethering of CHROMATOR and dCTCF proteins results in decompaction of condensed bands in the Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes but does not affect their transcription and replication timing

Galina V. Pokholkova,
Sergei A. Demakov,
Oleg V. Andreenkov,
Natalia G. Andreenkova,
Elena I. Volkova,
Elena S. Belyaeva,
Igor F. Zhimulev

Published: April 2, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192634

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