Functional interaction between the Fab-7 and Fab-8 boundaries and the upstream promoter region in the Drosophila Abd-B gene

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4188-4195

  Kyrchanova, Olga ^a   Toshchakov, Stepan ^a   Podstreshnaya, Yulia ^a   Parshikov, Alexander ^a   Georgiev, Pavel ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENE BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; PROTEIN FAB 7; PROTEIN FAB 8;

ABDOMINAL B GENE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 44949137376     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00229-08     Document Type: Article

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