Position-effect variegation in drosophila depends on the dose of the gene encoding the E2F transcriptional activator and cell cycle regulator

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1949-1956

  Seum, Carole ^a   Spierer, Anne ^a   Pauli, Daniel ^a   Szidonya, Janos ^b,c   Reuter, Gunter ^b   Spierer, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Cell cycle; dE2F transcription factor; Drosophila; Position effect variegation

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME 3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HETEROZYGOSITY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; E2F TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EYE COLOR; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INSECT HORMONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0029953903     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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