The Additional sex combs gene of Drosophila encodes a chromatin protein that binds to shared and unique Polycomb group sites on polytene chromosomes

Development

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1207-1216

  Sinclair, Donald A R ^a,b   Milne, Thomas A ^a   Hodgson, Jacob W ^a   Shellard, Joan ^a,d   Salinas, Claudia A ^a   Kyba, Michael ^a   Randazzo, Filippo ^c   Brock, Hugh W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^d Department of Microbiology ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Additional sex combs (Asx); Chromatin; Cysteine cluster; Drosophila; Polycomb group

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN; COMB; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HOMEOBOX; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSPOSON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0031946630     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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