Senseless acts as a binary switch during sensory organ precursor selection

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2966-2978

  Jafar Nejad, Hamed ^a   Acar, Melih ^a   Nolo, Riitta ^a,c   Lacin, Haluk ^a   Pan, Hongling ^a   Parkhurst, Susan M ^b   Bellen, Hugo J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Enhancer of split; Neuronal specification; Peripheral nervous system development; Proneural genes

Indexed keywords

PRONEURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SENSELESS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMAGINAL DISC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRONEURAL GENE; SENSE ORGAN; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

NASA DISCIPLINE DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; NASA PROGRAM FUNDAMENTAL SPACE BIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SENSE ORGANS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0348014688     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1122403     Document Type: Article

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