A novel role for the Bombyx Slbo homologue, BmC/EBP, in insect choriogenesis

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 337, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 713-719

  Sourmeli, S ^a   Papantonis, A ^a   Lecanidou, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

CCAAT enhancer binding protein; Choriogenesis; Chorion gene promoters; Insect oogenesis; Silkmoth follicles

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SILKWORM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BOMBYX; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CHORION; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BOMBYX; BOMBYX MORI; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 26444476418     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.09.103     Document Type: Article

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