In vivo validation of a computationally predicted conserved Ath5 target gene set

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1661-1671

  Del Bene, Filippo ^a,b   Ettwiller, Laurence ^a,c,d   Skowronska Krawczyk, Dorota ^e   Baier, Herwig ^b   Matter, Jean Marc ^e   Birney, Ewan ^c   Wittbrodt, Joachim ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ATH5; PROTEIN ATOH7; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SELECTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC FILTERING; PHYLOGENETIC FOOTPRINTING; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34848862733     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0030159     Document Type: Article

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