Combinatorial control of Drosophila mef2 gene expression in cardiac and somatic muscle cell lineages

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 208, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 382-392

  Gajewski, Kathleen ^a   Kim, Yongsok ^b   Choi, Cheol Yong ^b   Schulz, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial enhancer; D mef2; Founder cells; Heart; Somatic muscle

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MYOGENIC FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEART; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MESODERM; MUSCLES; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031720320     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004270050194     Document Type: Article

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