Dorsal-mediated repression requires the formation of a multiprotein repression complex at the ventral silencer

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6584-6594

  Valentine, Scott A ^a,d   Chen, Guoqing ^a   Shandala, Tatiana ^b   Fernandez, Joseph ^c   Mische, Sheenah ^c   Saint, Robert ^b   Courey, Albert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SILENCER GENE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0031795513     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.11.6584     Document Type: Article

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