Specificity of Atonal and Scute bHLH factors: Analysis of cognate E box binding sites and the influence of Senseless

Genes to Cells

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 915-929

  Powell, Lynn M ^a   Deaton, Aimée M ^a   Wear, Martin A ^a   Jarman, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA; PROTEIN ATONAL; PROTEIN SCUTE; PROTEIN SENSELESS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; E BOX ELEMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; E-BOX ELEMENTS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENES, INSECT; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 50849106038     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2008.01217.x     Document Type: Article

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