The Drosophila GAGA Factor is Required for Dosage Compensation in Males and for the Formation of the Male-Specific-Lethal Complex Chromatin Entry Site at 12DE

Genetics

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 279-289

  Greenberg, Anthony J ^a,b   Yanowitz, Judith L ^a,c   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN TRL; TRITHORAX LIKE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENDER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; MALE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENES, LETHAL; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALIA; ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 1642409447     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.166.1.279     Document Type: Article

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