In vivo analysis of scaffold-associated regions in Drosophila: A synthetic high-affinity SAR binding protein suppresses position effect variegation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2079-2085

  Girard, Franck ^a,c   Bello, Bruno ^a   K laemmli, Ulrich ^a,b   J gehring, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin structure; Drosophila; PEV; SAR

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); PROTEIN MATH; TETRACYCLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMAGINAL DISC; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITION EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032055120     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.7.2079     Document Type: Article

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