Max-independent functions of Myc in Drosophila melanogaster

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1084-1091

  Steiger, Dominik ^a   Furrer, Michael ^a   Schwinkendorf, Daniela ^a   Gallant, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; MAX PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; MYC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GROWTH REGULATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE III; TRANSGENES; WING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 50449096026     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.178     Document Type: Article

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