The Drosophila morphogenetic protein bicoid binds DNA cooperatively

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1195-1206

  Ma, Xiuguang ^a   Yuan, Dong ^a   Diepold, Katharina ^b,c   Scarborough, Tom ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Cooperativity; DNA binding; Drosophila; Enhancer; Hunchback

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR AXIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT HORMONES; JUVENILE HORMONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SUCCINIMIDES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029917071     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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