Promoter specificity mediates the independent regulation of neighboring genes

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1260-1270

  Merli, Christopher ^a   Bergstrom, David E ^a,b   Cygan, Jennifer A ^a,c   Blackman, Ronald K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; gene regulation; Promoter specificity; promoter enhancer interaction; targeted gene replacement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0029973108     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.10.1260     Document Type: Article

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