Stellate repeats: Targets of silencing and modules causing cis-inactivation and trans-activation

Genetica

Volumn 117, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 239-245

  Gvozdev, Vladimir A ^a   Aravin, Alexei A ^a   Abramov, Yury A ^a   Klenov, Mikhail S ^a   Kogan, Galina L ^a   Lavrov, Sergei A ^a   Naumova, Natalia M ^a   Olenkina, Oxana M ^a   Tulin, Alexei V ^a   Vagin, Vasili V ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Heterochromatic repeats; PEV; Retrotransposon; RNA interference; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; TRANSPOSONS;

ABC TRANSPORTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; EYE PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SSL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; STE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; WHITE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0037871838     PISSN: 00166707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022952315467     Document Type: Review

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