The Bearded box, a novel 3' UTR sequence motif, mediates negative post-transcriptional regulation of Bearded and Enhancer of split Complex gene expression

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 23, 1997, Pages 4847-4856

  Lai, Eric C ^a   Posakony, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3' untranslated region; Bearded; Brd box; Drosophila; Enhancer of split; GY box; Neurogenesis; Post transcriptional regulation; RNA stability; Sensory organ development; Transitional control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMAGINAL DISC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031469465     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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