Direct activation of sex-lethal transcription by the Drosophila Runt protein

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 191-200

  Kramer, Sunita G ^a   Jinks, Timothy M ^b   Schedl, Paul ^b   Gergen, J Peter ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AML1; Runt domain; Sex determination; Sex lethal; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0032904938     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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