Insulator a skos:Concept, RegulatoryClass
Subclasses
Annotations
| skos:definition | A regulatory region that 1) when located between a CM and a gene's promoter prevents the CRM from modulating that genes expression and 2) acts as a chromatin boundary element or barrier that can block the encroachment of condensed chromatin from an adjacent region. |
| ddbjLabel | insulator |
| skos:exactMatch | http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/SO_0000627 |
| skos:exactMatch | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1471601 |