Insulators are DNA sequences that control the interactions among genomic regulatory elements and act as chromatin boundaries. A thorough understanding of their location and function is necessary to address the complexities of metazoan gene regulation. We studied by ChIP-chip the genome-wide binding sites of 6 insulator-associated proteins-dCTCF, CP190, BEAF-32, Su(Hw), Mod(mdg4), and GAF-to obt...

annually, a lot of imported heat insulator concretes, are used for which a considerable amount of exchange expenses are allocated. most kinds of these insulator concretes are imported during foundation and installation of the factories accompanied by primary facilities and supplies. even, after a short time the factories began to work, whenever the walls of the insulators are required to be cha...

In this review, we discuss recent progress in the explorations of topological materials beyond topological insulators; specifically, we focus on topological crystalline insulators and bulk topological superconductors. The basic concepts, model Hamiltonians, and novel electronic properties of these new topological materials are explained. The key role of symmetries that underlie their topologica...

37 IMR KINKEN Research Highlights 2013 IMR KINKEN Research Highlights 2013 In 2005, the theoretical prediction of a new class of materials known as topological insulators [1] promised novel physics and the potential for various applications. The key distinction from ordinary insulators lies in the fact that topological insulators support stable gapless boundary modes. Topological insulators owe...

In order to avoid the impacts of outer factors on the ice-covered insulators recognition, such as weather, seasons, outside illumination changes, acquisition time, image background and image contrast, a general algorithm which can recognize and detect the ice-covered insulator accurately in a complex environment is put forward in this paper. With the video monitoring device, the image informati...

Insulators are defined as a class of regulatory elements that delimit independent transcriptional domains within eukaryotic genomes. The first insulators to be identified were scs and scs', which flank the domain including two heat shock 70 genes. Zw5 and BEAF bind to scs and scs', respectively, and are responsible for the interaction between these insulators. Using the regulatory regions of ye...

Chromatin insulators are thought to restrict the action of enhancers and silencers. The best-known insulators in Drosophila require proteins such as Suppressor of Hairy wing (Su(Hw)) and Modifier of mdg4 (Mod(mdg4)) to be functional. The insulator-related proteins apparently colocalize as nuclear speckles in immunostained cells. It has been asserted that these speckles are 'insulator bodies' of...

Insulators are defined as a class of regulatory elements that delimit independent transcriptional domains within eukaryotic genomes. According to previous data, an interaction (pairing) between some Drosophila insulators can support distant activation of a promoter by an enhancer. Here, we have demonstrated that pairs of well-studied insulators such as scs-scs, scs'-scs', 1A2-1A2 and Wari-Wari ...

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators feature edge states that topologically protected from backscattering. However, the major obstacles to application for QSH effect are the lack of suitable QSH insulators with a large bulk gap. Based on first-principles calculations, we predict a class of large-gap QSH insulators in ethynyl-derivative functionalized stanene (SnC2X; X = H, F, Cl, Br, I), allowing...