Functional dissection of eyes absent reveals new modes of regulation within the retinal determination gene network

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 5989-5999

  Silver, Serena J ^a,b   Davies, Erin L ^a,c   Doyon, Laura ^a   Rebay, Ilaria ^a,b  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; GENE PRODUCT; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NOTCH RECEPTOR; RAS PROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT1 PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; EYA GENE; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROUCHO SINE OCULIS GENE; INSECT CELL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RD GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EYE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RAS PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ERINACEIDAE; HOMO; INSECTA;

EID: 0042971852     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.17.5989-5999.2003     Document Type: Article

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