Serpent regulates Drosophila immunity genes in the larval fat body through an essential GATA motif

EMBO Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 4013-4022

  Petersen, Ulla Maja ^a   Kadalayil, Latha ^a   Rehorn, Klaus Peter ^b   Hoshizaki, Deborah Keiko ^d   Reuter, Rolf ^c   Engström, Ylva ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cecropin; Fat body; GATA motif; Innate immunity; Serpent

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAT BODY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; IMMUNITY; INFECTION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FAT BODY; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REPORTER; HEMOCYTES; INSECT HORMONES; LARVA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PEPTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0033565677     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.14.4013     Document Type: Article

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