Dynamic Regulation by Polycomb Group Protein Complexes Controls Pattern Formation and the Cell Cycle in Drosophila

Developmental Cell

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 877-889

  Oktaba, Katarzyna ^a   Gutiérrez, Luis ^a   Gagneur, Julien ^a   Girardot, Charles ^a   Sengupta, Aditya K ^a   Furlong, Eileen E M ^a   Müller, Jürg ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

DEVBIO; DNA

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; PROTEIN PRC1; PROTEIN PRC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SFMBT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YY1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; IMAGINAL DISC; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL SEPARATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 57049141484     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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