P-element insertion at the polyhomeotic gene leads to formation of a novel chimeric protein that negatively regulates yellow gene expression in P- element-induced alleles of Drosophila melanogaster

Genetics

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 687-697

  Belenkaya, Tatiana ^a,b   Soldatov, Alexey ^a,b,c   Nabirochkina, Elena ^a,c   Birjukova, Inna ^a   Georgieva, Sofia ^a,b,c   Georgiev, Pavel ^a,c,d  

^a Dept Contr of Genetic Processes ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; POLYHOMEOTIC GENE PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YELLOW GENE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERTANT;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEOPROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSPOSASES; X CHROMOSOME;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031717052     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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