Sequence-specific targeting of Drosophila roX genes by the MSL dosage compensation complex

Molecular Cell

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 977-986

  Park, Yongkyu ^a   Mengus, Gabrielle ^b,d   Bai, Xiaoying ^a   Kageyama, Yuji ^a,e   Meller, Victoria H ^c   Becker, Peter B ^b   Kuroda, Mitzi I ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^e NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0037623368     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00147-3     Document Type: Article

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