Short-range transcriptional repressors mediate both quenching and direct repression witnin complex loci in Drosophila

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 700-710

  Gray, Susan ^a   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila embryo; Gene regulation; Kr ppel; Snail; Transcriptional repression; Zinc finger repressors

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; GASTROPODA;

EID: 0029916318     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.6.700     Document Type: Article

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