Structural organization of the rae28 gene, a putative murine homologue of the Drosophila polyhomeotic gene

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 797-802

  Motaleb, Md Abdul ^a   Takihara, Yoshihiro ^a   Nomura, Midori ^a   Matsuda, Yoichi ^b   Higashinakagawa, Toru ^c   Shimada, Kazunori ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Embryogenesis; F9 cell; Genomic organization; Nucleotide sequence; Polycomb group genes

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOME; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXON; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE LIBRARY; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMEOBOX; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANIZATION;

MURINAE;

EID: 0029809253     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021482     Document Type: Article

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