Requirements for transcriptional repression and activation by Engrailed in Drosophila embryos

Development

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 729-739

  Alexandre, Cyrille ^a   Vincent, Jean Paul ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Engrailed; Extradenticle; Hedgehog; Homeotic genes; Transcriptional repression and activation; Wingless signaling

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO SEGMENTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THORAX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THORAX; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ERINACEIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0037324449     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.00286     Document Type: Review

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