Evolutionary strategies for the elucidation of cis and trans factors that regulate the developmental switching programs of the β-like globin genes

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 18-32

  Gumucio, Deborah L ^a   Shelton, David A ^a   Zhu, Wei ^a   Millinoff, David ^a   Gray, Todd ^b   Bock, Jeffrey H ^c   Slightom, Jerry L ^c   Goodman, Morris ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; SIMIAE;

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ERYTHROID SPECIFIC DNA BINDING FACTOR; GLOBIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ERYTHROID-SPECIFIC DNA-BINDING FACTORS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, SWITCH; GLOBINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030076323     PISSN: 10557903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1996.0004     Document Type: Article

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