Developmental acquisition of enhancer function requires a unique coactivator activity

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1721-1731

  Majumder, Sadhan ^a   Zhao, Zhaoyang ^a   Kaneko, Kotaro ^b   DePamphilis, Melvin L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Coactivators; Enhancers; Mouse development; Transcription; Zygotic gene activation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMERES; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENETIC VECTORS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS PROTEIN VMW65; KINETICS; LUCIFERASES; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STRUCTURAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030944456     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.7.1721     Document Type: Article

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