Multiple downstream promoter modules regulate the transcription of the Drosophila melanogaster I, Doc and F elements

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 37-46

  Minchiotti, Gabriella ^a   Contursi, Cristina ^a   Di Nocera, Pier Paolo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND BIOPHYSICS ADRIANO BUZZATI TRAVERSO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Downstream promoters; Inr; TAFs; TATA less promoters; TFIID

Indexed keywords

DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; NUCLEAR FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LONG INTERSPERSED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031582085     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0860     Document Type: Article

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