“…BEAF32, dCTCF, Su(Hw), Zw5, GAF, CP190, MOD(MDG4)) 4,5 , later reports indicated additional insulators such as Pita and ZIPIC, the human ortholog of which is ZNF276 53,54 . Of note, several insulators such as dCTCF and Su(Hw) in Drosophila contain C2H2 zinc-finger domains implicated in DNA-binding and in particular, GAF, MOD(MDG4), and CP190 have BTB/POZ domains 4,55–57 involved in dimerization 58 and important for long-range interactions 59,60 , similar to PATZ1 in mammals 61 . Based on our analysis indicating the presence of PATZ1 at loops (Figures 2D and 2E), the reduction in looping interactions upon loss of PATZ1 (Figure 6 and S11), and the multimerization properties of CTCF in mammals 62 , the BTB/POZ domain of PATZ1 may be critical for homo/heterodimerization during loop formation.…”