Drosophila TFIIA-S is up-regulated and required during Ras-mediated photoreceptor determination

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 50-59

  Zeidler, Martin P ^a   Yokomori, Kyoko ^b   Tjian, Robert ^b   Mlodzik, Marek ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basal transcription machinery; coactivators; Drosophila; eye development; Ras pathway

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029671332     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.1.50     Document Type: Article

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