Identification of genes dependent on the MADS box transcription factor SrfA in Dictyostelium discoideum development

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 564-566

  Escalante, Ricardo ^a   Iranfar, Negin ^b   Sastre, Leandro ^a   Loomis, William F ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b SECTION OF CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MADS DOMAIN PROTEIN; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE SILENCING; GENES, PROTOZOAN; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 16544381522     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.2.564-566.2004     Document Type: Article

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