USF in the Lytechinus sea urchin embryo may act as a transcriptional repressor in non-aboral ectoderm cells for the cell lineage-specific expression of the LpS1 genes

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-19

  Seid, Christopher A ^a   George, Jenny M ^a   Sater, Amy K ^a   Kozlowski, Mark T ^c   Lee, Haemin ^a   Govindarajan, Venkatesh ^a   Ramachandran, Ravi K ^a   Tomlinson, Craig R ^a,b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Lineage specific; Lytechinus; Transcriptional repression green fluorescent protein; USF

Indexed keywords

CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ECTODERM; EMBRYO; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GASTRULA; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; LARVA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; SEA URCHIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ECHINOIDEA; LYTECHINUS; LYTECHINUS PICTUS; LYTECHINUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 0030598355     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0619     Document Type: Article

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