A silencer is required for maintenance of transcriptional repression throughout Drosophila development

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 4343-4350

  Busturia, Ana ^a   Wightman, Christopher D ^a   Sakonju, Shigeru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal B; Drosophila; FLP FRT; Homeotic genes; Imaginal disc silencers; MCP; Polycomb group genes; PRE; Transcriptional silencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVELOPMENT; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DROSOPHILA; GENE REPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEOBOX; IMAGINAL DISC; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WING;

EID: 0030723797     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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