A cellular memory module conveys epigenetic inheritance of hedgehog expression during Drosophila wing imaginal disc development

Genes and Development

Volumn 16, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 2672-2683

  Maurange, Cédric ^a   Paro, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cellular memory; Drosophila; Hedgehog; Polycomb; Trithorax

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INHERITANCE; LARVAL STAGE; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CELL DIVISION; CHROMATIN; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MEMORY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITIN TESTS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

ARACHNIDA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037108255     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.242702     Document Type: Article

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