The gypsy insulator can function as a promoter-specific silencer in the Drosophila embryo

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1732-1741

  Cai, Haini N ^a   Levine, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Gypsy; Insulator; Promoter specific silencer

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; RETROPOSON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; HETEROZYGOTE; MALE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETROELEMENTS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0030998714     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.7.1732     Document Type: Article

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