The Drosophila Polycomb Group proteins ESC and E(Z) bind directly to each other and co-localize at multiple chromosomal sites

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 17, 1998, Pages 3483-3496

  Tie, Feng ^a   Furuyama, Takehito ^a   Harte, Peter J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; E(Z); ESC; Polycomb group; Protein complex; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; COMB; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMEOBOX; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SILENCER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031719427     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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