The PSEA promoter element of the Drosophila U1 snRNA gene is sufficient to bring DmSNAPc into contact with 20 base pairs of downstream DNA

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 6579-6586

  Lai, Hsien Tsung ^a   Chen, Hsiang ^a,b   Li, Cheng ^a,c   McNamara Schroeder, Kathleen J ^a   Stumph, William E ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN SNAP43; PROTEIN SNAPC; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA; SNARE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; RNA GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; TATA BOX; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 29144479988     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki972     Document Type: Article

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