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Nature Structural Biology  10, 241 - 243 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nsb0403-241

Making good neighbors: The right fence for the right job

Paul Schedl & James R. Broach

Paul Schedl and James R. Broach are in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to Paul Schedl pschedl@molbio.princeton.edu or James R. Broach jbroach@molbio.princeton.edu
Function analysis of 'insulators' has led to the idea that they comprise two separable and mechanistically distinct insulating activities — one blocking enhancer cross-talk and the other barring heterochromatin spreading. However, results from two recent studies have blurred this mechanistic distinction.

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