Evolutionarily conserved domains required for activation and repression functions of the Drosophila Hox protein Ultrabithorax

Development

Volumn 132, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 5271-5281

  Tour, Ella ^a   Hittinger, Chris Todd ^b   McGinnis, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Hox; Sex combs reduced; Transcriptional activation; Transcriptional repression; Ultrabithorax

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HOX PROTEIN; PROTEIN ULTRABITHORAX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIMB BUD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 29644440598     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02138     Document Type: Article

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