Germ cell-less acts to repress transcription during the establishment of the Drosophila germ cell lineage

Current Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 1681-1685

  Leatherman, Judith L ^a   Levin, Lissa ^b   Boero, Julie ^b   Jongens, Thomas A ^b  

^a Graduate Programs of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GCL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GCL PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SISTERLESS A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GERM CELL; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINEAGE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, INSECT; GERM CELLS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0036792942     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01182-X     Document Type: Article

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