Two new regulatory elements controlling the Drosophila Sgs-3 gene are potential ecdysone receptor and fork head binding sites

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-27

  Lehmann, Michael ^a   Wattler, Frank ^a,b   Korge, Günter ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; ecdysone response; EcR USP; fork head; Sgs 3

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA; ECDYSONE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GLUE PROTEINS, DROSOPHILA; INSECT HORMONES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031079790     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(96)00644-2     Document Type: Article

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