Interplay between positive and negative activities that influence the role of Bicoid in transcription

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 3985-3993

  Fu, Dechen ^a,b   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GENERAL TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN BICOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CBP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIN3A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACYLTRANSFERASE; BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SIN3A TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; TRANSACTIVATION;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 22244439232     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki691     Document Type: Article

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