One thousand and one ways of making functionally similar transcriptional enhancers

BioEssays

Volumn 30, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 1052-1057

  Veitia, Reiner A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA STRUCTURE; SPECIES COMPARISON; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

DROSOPHILIDAE; SEPSIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 58149143168     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20849     Document Type: Article

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