Decisive factors: A transcription activator can overcome heterochromatin silencing

BioEssays

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 767-771

  Eissenberg, Joel C ^a  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; MALE; MAMMALS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0034814989     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.1111     Document Type: Review

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