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In vivo formaldehyde cross-linking: it is time for black box analysis

Formaldehyde cross-linking is an important component of many technologies, including chromatin immunoprecipitation and chromosome conformation capture. The procedure remains empirical and poorly characterized, however, despite a long history of its use in research. Little is known about the specific...

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Autores principales: Gavrilov, Alexey, Razin, Sergey V., Cavalli, Giacomo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6090872/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25241225
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bfgp/elu037
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Sumario:Formaldehyde cross-linking is an important component of many technologies, including chromatin immunoprecipitation and chromosome conformation capture. The procedure remains empirical and poorly characterized, however, despite a long history of its use in research. Little is known about the specificity of in vivo cross-linking, its efficiency and chemical adducts induced by the procedure. It is time to search this black box.