Chromatin Looping (image)

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Caption

A chromatin loop forms when an enhancer and a promoter, two widely separated elements in a DNA sequence, come into contact as they carry out gene activity.

Credit

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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