The downstream promoter element DPE appears to be as widely used as the TATA box in Drosophila core promoters

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 4754-4764

  Kutach, Alan K ^a   Kadonaga, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TATA BOX;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS, TFII; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034081817     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.13.4754-4764.2000     Document Type: Article

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