Drosophila Paired regulates late even-skipped expression through a composite binding site for the paired domain and the homeodomain

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2697-2707

  Fujioka, Miki ^a   Miskiewicz, Pawel ^b   Raj, Lakshmi ^b   Gulledge, Alyssa A ^a,c   Weir, Michael ^b   Goto, Tadaatsu ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila segmentation; even skipped; Homeodomain; Paired; Paired domain; Pax protein

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0029817071     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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