Positive cross-regulation and enhancer sharing: Two mechanisms for specifying overlapping Hox expression patterns

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 900-913

  Gould, Alex ^a   Morrison, Alastair ^a   Sproat, Graham ^b   White, Robert A H ^b   Krumlauf, Robb ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross regulatory interactions; Drosophila homeotic genes; enhancer sharing; Hox complex; Hoxb4; transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ARTHROPODA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031003129     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.7.900     Document Type: Article

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