The Drosophila gene stand still encodes a germline chromatin-associated protein that controls the transcription of the ovarian tumor gene

Development

Volumn 126, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1917-1926

  Sahut Barnola, Isabelle ^a,b   Pauli, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chromatin transcription; Germline; Ovarian tumor (otu); Ovo (ovo); Stand still (stil)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; GERM LINE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY TUMOR; POINT MUTATION; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, LETHAL; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; OVUM; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033040740     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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