Direct regulatory interaction of the eyeless protein with an eye-specific enhancer in the sine oculis gene during eye induction in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2253-2260

  Niimi, Teruyuki ^a   Seimiya, Makiko ^a   Kloter, Urs ^a   Flister, Susanne ^a   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Eye development; Eyeless; Sine oculis

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; ECTOPIC ORGAN; ENHANCER REGION; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EYE; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PLATYHELMINTHES;

EID: 0033007507     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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