DNA supercoiling factor contributes to dosage compensation in Drosophila

Development

Volumn 133, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 4475-4483

  Furuhashi, Hirofumi ^a,b   Nakajima, Mikage ^a   Hirose, Susumu ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin remodeling; Dosage compensation; Drosophila; MSL complex; Supercoiling factor

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; DNA SUPERCOILING FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; MALE SPECIFIC LETHALITY PROTEIN; PROTEIN ISWI; PROTEIN MOF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INSECT GENETICS; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; XCHROMOSOME;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CHROMATIN; DNA PRIMERS; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASES; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 33845897892     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.02620     Document Type: Article

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