The GAGA factor is required in the early Drosophila embryo not only for transcriptional regulation but also for nuclear division

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1113-1124

  Bhat, Krishna Moorthi ^a   Farkas, Gabriella ^b   Karch, Francois ^b   Gyurkovics, Henrik ^c   Gausz, Janos ^c   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Drosophila; GAGA; Heterochromatin; Nuclear division; Trithorax like

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSECT HORMONES; MUTATION; OOGENESIS; OVARY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029978751     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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