The capacity to form H-DNA cannot substitute for GAGA factor binding to a (CT)n ·(GA)n regulatory site

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2483-2494

  Lu, Quinn ^a,b   Teare, John M ^a,c   Granok, Howard ^a,d   Swede, Marci J ^a,e   Xu, Jenny ^a,f   Elgin, Sarah C R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^c CELERA   (United States)

^d Middlesex Community College ^*  (United States)

^e Middlesex Community College   (United States)

^f MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BETA LACTAMASE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANOSINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 26; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRIPLEX DNA; TRL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA SYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; FEMALE; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; PLASMID; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0037705474     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg369     Document Type: Article

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