Chromatin insulator bodies are nuclear structures that form in response to osmotic stress and cell death

Nuclear Organization and Genome Function

(2012) Kevin Van Bortle et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Three-Dimensional Folding and Functional Organization Principles of the Drosophila Genome

(2012) Tom Sexton et al.   CELL

Insulators, long-range interactions, and genome function

(2012) Jingping Yang et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

Response to Hyperosmotic Stress

(2012) H. Saito et al.   GENETICS

SUMO conjugation is required for the assembly of Drosophila Su(Hw) and Mod(mdg4) into insulator bodies that facilitate insulator complex formation

(2012) A. Golovnin et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Gene Density, Transcription, and Insulators Contribute to the Partition of the Drosophila Genome into Physical Domains

(2012) Chunhui Hou et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The chromosomal association/dissociation of the chromatin insulator protein Cp190 of Drosophila melanogaster is mediated by the BTB/POZ domain and two acidic regions

(2011) Daniel Oliver et al.   BMC CELL BIOLOGY

Inheritance of Stress-Induced, ATF-2-Dependent Epigenetic Change

(2011) Ki-Hyeon Seong et al.   CELL

Polycomb-Dependent Regulatory Contacts between Distant Hox Loci in Drosophila

(2011) Frédéric Bantignies et al.   CELL

Enhancer and promoter interactions—long distance calls

(2011) Ivan Krivega et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN GENETICS & DEVELOPMENT

A Muscle-Specific p38 MAPK/Mef2/MnSOD Pathway Regulates Stress, Motor Function, and Life Span in Drosophila

(2011) Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Regulation of Chromatin Organization and Inducible Gene Expression by a Drosophila Insulator

(2011) Ashley M. Wood et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

DNA Topoisomerase II Modulates Insulator Function in Drosophila

(2011) Edward Ramos et al.   PLoS One

A chromatin insulator driving three-dimensional Polycomb response element (PRE) contacts and Polycomb association with the chromatin fiber

(2011) I. Comet et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nuclear Stress Bodies

(2010) G. Biamonti et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

A Comprehensive Map of Insulator Elements for the Drosophila Genome

(2010) Nicolas Nègre et al.   PLoS Genetics

Multiple Roles for Heterochromatin Protein 1 Genes in Drosophila

(2009) Danielle Vermaak et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Chromatin insulators specifically associate with different levels of higher-order chromatin organization in Drosophila

(2009) Heather A. Wallace et al.   CHROMOSOMA

A chromatin insulator mediates transgene homing and very long-range enhancer-promoter communication

(2009) M. Fujioka et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Three subclasses of a Drosophila insulator show distinct and cell type-specific genomic distributions

(2009) A. M. Bushey et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

The Phylogenetic Distribution of Non-CTCF Insulator Proteins Is Limited to Insects and Reveals that BEAF-32 Is Drosophila Lineage Specific

(2009) Todd A. Schoborg et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Macromolecular crowding and its potential impact on nuclear function

(2008) Karsten Richter et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH

‘Insulator bodies’ are aggregates of proteins but not of insulators

(2008) Anton Golovnin et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Global analysis of the insulator binding protein CTCF in chromatin barrier regions reveals demarcation of active and repressive domains

(2008) S. Cuddapah et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Culture of Drosophila S2 cells and their use for RNAi-mediated loss-of-function studies and immunofluorescence microscopy

(2008) Stephen L Rogers et al.   Nature Protocols