Drosophila Su(Hw) regulates an evolutionarily conserved silencer from the mouse H19 imprinting control region

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 69, Issue , 2004, Pages 47-54

  Schoenfelder, S ^a   Paro, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METHYLATION; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSULATOR ELEMENT; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POLYTENE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SILENCER ELEMENT; SILENT GENE; SUPPRESSOR GENE; TRANSGENICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; H19 GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; SU(HW) GENE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENES, INSECT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; INSULATOR ELEMENTS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; MALE; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE DELETION; SILENCER ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 23044453277     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2004.69.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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