General, negative feedback mechanism for regulation of Trithorax-like gene expression in vivo: New roles for GAGA factor in flies

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 7150-7159

  Bernués, Jordi ^a   Piñeyro, David ^a   Kosoy, Ana ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAGA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 37549033838     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm590     Document Type: Article

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