The Drosophila tango gene encodes a bHLH-PAS protein that is orthologous to mammalian Arnt and controls CNS midline and tracheal development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 4571-4582

  Sonnenfeld, Margaret ^a   Ward, Mary ^a   Nystrom, Gerald ^a   Mosher, Jack ^a   Stahl, Stephanie ^a   Crews, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arnt; bHLH; Development; Drosophila; PAS; Single minded; Tango; Trachealess; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRACHEA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; TRACHEA; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030700310     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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