batman interacts with Polycomb and trithorax group genes and encodes a BTB/POZ protein that is included in a complex containing GAGA factor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1181-1195

  Faucheux, M ^a   Roignant, J Y ^b   Netter, S ^a,c   Charollais, J ^a   Antoniewski, C ^b   Theodore L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATMAN PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; GENE PRODUCT; PCG PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; TRXG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; POLYCOMB GROUP GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRITHORAX GROUP GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LARVA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037317211     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.4.1181-1195.2003     Document Type: Article

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