The polycomb group protein complex of Drosophila melanogaster has different compositions at different target genes

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 6773-6783

  Strutt, Helen ^a,b   Paro, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CROSS LINKING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030657920     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.12.6773     Document Type: Article

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