Analysis of an even-skipped rescue transgene reveals both composite and discrete neuronal and early blastoderm enhancers, and multi-stripe positioning by gap gene repressor gradients

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2527-2538

  Fujioka, Miki ^a   Emi Sarker, Yukiko ^a   Yusibova, Galina L ^a   Goto, Tadaatsu ^a   Jaynes, James B ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; CNS; Even skipped; Pattern formation; Segmentation; Translational control

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE LOCUS; MESODERM; MUTANT; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSGENE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MESODERM; NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0033037862     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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