The zinc-finger protein Zelda is a key activator of the early zygotic genome in Drosophila

Nature

Volumn 456, Issue 7220, 2008, Pages 400-403

  Liang, Hsiao Lan ^a   Nien, Chung Yi ^a   Liu, Hsiao Yun ^a   Metzstein, Mark M ^b   Kirov, Nikolai ^a   Rushlow, Christine ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER EARLY DROSOPHILA ACTIVATOR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

DEGRADATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; PROTEIN; RNA; SEX DETERMINATION; ZINC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA DEGRADATION; SEX DETERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSIENT TRANSFECTION; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BLASTODERM; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, INSECT; MALE; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER, STORED; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; ZINC FINGERS; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 56749183626     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07388     Document Type: Article

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