Specification of regions of DNA replication initiation during embryogenesis in the 65-kilobase DNApolα-dE2F locus of Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 547-555

  Sasaki, Takayo ^a,d   Sawado, Tomoyuki ^b,c   Yamaguchi, Masamitsu ^b   Shinomiya, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INITIATION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0032906460     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.19.1.547     Document Type: Article

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