Transcriptional activity of the telomeric retrotransposon HeT-A in Drosophila melanogaster is stimulated as a consequence of subterminal deficiencies at homologous and nonhomologous telomeres

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 4991-5001

  Frydrychova, Radmila Capkova ^a   Biessmann, Harald ^b   Konev, Alexander Y ^a,c   Golubovsky, Mikhail D ^a,d   Johnson, Jessica ^a   Archer, Trevor K ^a   Mason, James M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); RETROPOSON; TELOMERE; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETROELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TELOMERE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 34347334554     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00515-07     Document Type: Article

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