Transcriptional repression by the Caenorhabditis elegans germ-line protein PIE-1

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 202-212

  Batchelder, Ceri ^a   Dunn, Melanie A ^b   Choy, Bob ^a   Suh, Yong ^a   Cassie, Conrad ^a   Shim, Eun Yong ^a   Shin, Tae Ho ^c   Mello, Craig ^c   Seydoux, Geraldine ^b   Blackwell, T Keith ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

C. elegans; Germ line; Repression; RNA Pol II CTD; Transcription; Zinc finger

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HEPTAPEPTIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EMBRYO; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GERM LINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSGENE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0033555660     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.2.202     Document Type: Article

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