The Enhancer of Polycomb gene of Drosophila encodes a chromatin protein conserved in yeast and mammals

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 4055-4066

  Stankunas, Kryn ^a,d   Berger, Joel ^b   Ruse, Chris ^a   Sinclair, Donald A R ^b   Randazzo, Filippo ^c   Brock, Hugh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Drosophila; Enhancer of Polycomb; Polycomb group; Position effect variegation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HOMEOBOX; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSPOSON; YEAST;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031737509     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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