Functional Dissection of the Blocking and Bypass Activities of the Fab-8 Boundary in the Drosophila Bithorax Complex

Determinants of Chromosome Architecture: Insulator Pairing in cis and in trans

(2016) Miki Fujioka et al.   PLoS Genetics

Functional role of dimerization and CP190 interacting domains of CTCF protein in Drosophila melanogaster

(2015) Artem Bonchuk et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

CRISPR Inversion of CTCF Sites Alters Genome Topology and Enhancer/Promoter Function

(2015) Ya Guo et al.   CELL

The Role of Chromosome Domains in Shaping the Functional Genome

(2015) Tom Sexton et al.   CELL

The open for business model of the bithorax complex in Drosophila

(2015) Robert K. Maeda et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Architectural hallmarks of the pluripotent genome

(2015) Britta A.M. Bouwman et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Functional Requirements forFab-7Boundary Activity in the Bithorax Complex

(2015) Daniel Wolle et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

CTCF Binding Polarity Determines Chromatin Looping

(2015) Elzo de Wit et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

Evolutionary comparison reveals that diverging CTCF sites are signatures of ancestral topological associating domains borders

(2015) Carlos Gómez-Marín et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CTCF establishes discrete functional chromatin domains at theHoxclusters during differentiation

(2015) Varun Narendra et al.   SCIENCE

Comparative Hi-C Reveals that CTCF Underlies Evolution of Chromosomal Domain Architecture

(2015) Matteo Vietri Rudan et al.   Cell Reports

A 3D Map of the Human Genome at Kilobase Resolution Reveals Principles of Chromatin Looping

(2014) Suhas S.P. Rao et al.   CELL

Highly conserved ENY2/Sus1 protein binds toDrosophilaCTCF and is required for barrier activity

(2014) Oksana Maksimenko et al.   Epigenetics

Two new insulator proteins, Pita and ZIPIC, target CP190 to chromatin

(2014) Oksana Maksimenko et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Chromatin Insulator Factors Involved in Long-Range DNA Interactions and Their Role in the Folding of the Drosophila Genome

(2014) Jutta Vogelmann et al.   PLoS Genetics

H3K27 modifications define segmental regulatory domains in the Drosophila bithorax complex

(2014) Sarah K Bowman et al.   eLife

Surviving an identity crisis: A revised view of chromatin insulators in the genomics era

(2013) Leah H. Matzat et al.   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Making connections: Insulators organize eukaryotic chromosomes into independent cis-regulatory networks

(2013) Darya Chetverina et al.   BIOESSAYS

CTCF and Cohesin: Linking Gene Regulatory Elements with Their Targets

(2013) Matthias Merkenschlager et al.   CELL

Chromatin insulators and long-distance interactions inDrosophila

(2013) Olga Kyrchanova et al.   FEBS LETTERS

The Border Between the Ultrabithorax and abdominal-A Regulatory Domains in the Drosophila Bithorax Complex

(2013) W. Bender et al.   GENETICS

The Hierarchy of the 3D Genome

(2013) Johan H. Gibcus et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

The Drosophila eve Insulator Homie Promotes eve Expression and Protects the Adjacent Gene from Repression by Polycomb Spreading

(2013) Miki Fujioka et al.   PLoS Genetics

Chromatin domains, insulators, and the regulation of gene expression

(2012) Rodolfo Ghirlando et al.   Biochimica et Biophysica Acta-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

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

(2012) Tom Sexton et al.   CELL

CTCF: insights into insulator function during development

(2012) M. Herold et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Topological domains in mammalian genomes identified by analysis of chromatin interactions

(2012) Jesse R. Dixon et al.   NATURE

Elba, a novel developmentally regulated chromatin boundary factor is a hetero-tripartite DNA binding complex

(2012) Tsutomu Aoki et al.   eLife

RNAi-independent role for Argonaute2 in CTCF/CP190 chromatin insulator function

(2011) N. Moshkovich et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Mechanism of Chromosomal Boundary Action: Roadblock, Sink, or Loop?

(2011) D. Gohl et al.   GENETICS

Disruption of the Abdominal-B Promoter Tethering Element Results in a Loss of Long-Range Enhancer-Directed Hox Gene Expression in Drosophila

(2011) Margaret C. W. Ho et al.   PLoS One

Insulators, Not Polycomb Response Elements, Are Required for Long-Range Interactions between Polycomb Targets in Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) H.-B. Li et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Selective interactions of boundaries with upstream region of Abd-B promoter in Drosophila bithorax complex and role of dCTCF in this process

(2010) Olga Kyrchanova et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Initiator Elements Function to Determine the Activity State of BX-C Enhancers

(2010) Carole Iampietro et al.   PLoS Genetics

Does CTCF mediate between nuclear organization and gene expression?

(2009) Rolf Ohlsson et al.   BIOESSAYS

Zeste can facilitate long-range enhancer–promoter communication and insulator bypass in Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) Margarita Kostyuchenko et al.   CHROMOSOMA

Enhancer-promoter communication at the Drosophila engrailed locus

(2009) D. Kwon et al.   DEVELOPMENT

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

(2009) M. Fujioka et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Boundary swapping in the Drosophila Bithorax complex

(2008) C. Iampietro et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Enhancer-Promoter Communication Is Regulated by Insulator Pairing in a Drosophila Model Bigenic Locus

(2008) O. Maksimenko et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Functional Interaction between the Fab-7 and Fab-8 Boundaries and the Upstream Promoter Region in the Drosophila Abd-B Gene

(2008) O. Kyrchanova et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Characterization of new regulatory elements within the Drosophila bithorax complex

(2008) S. Perez-Lluch et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Orientation-dependent interaction between Drosophila insulators is a property of this class of regulatory elements

(2008) O. Kyrchanova et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH