Transvection in the Drosophila Abd-B domain: Extensive upstream sequences are involved in anchoring distant cis-regulatory regions to the promoter

Genetics

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1031-1050

  Sipos, László ^a   Mihály, József ^a,b   Karch, François ^b   Schedl, Paul ^c   Gausz, János ^a   Gyurkovics, Henrik ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; MALE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE;

ABDOMEN; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENES, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 2642684572     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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