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. 2002 Dec 10;99(Suppl 4):16433–16437. doi: 10.1073/pnas.162342499

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Two kinds of insulator functions. (A) Some insulators may function as barriers against the encroachment of adjacent genomic condensed chromatin. (B) Some insulators may serve as positional enhancer-blocking elements that prevent enhancer action when placed between enhancer and promoter, but not otherwise.