A proline-rich region in the zeste protein essential for transvection and white repression by zeste

Genetics

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1865-1874

  Rosen, Christina ^a   Dorsett, Dale ^a   Jack, Joseph ^b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; LYSINE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERTANT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MUTAGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PROLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031917464     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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