A basic-HLH transcription factor, HLH54F, is highly expressed in the prothoracic gland in the silkworm bombyx mori and the fruit fly drosophila melanogaster

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 762-765

  Namiki, Toshiki ^a   Niwa, Ryusuke ^a,b   Higuchi, Atsushi ^a   Yoshiyama, Takuji ^a   Mita, Kazuei ^c   Kataoka, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecdysone; Expressed sequence tag; Prothoracic gland; SilkBase; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIXES; BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ECDYSONE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG DATABASE; FRUIT FLIES; PROTHORACIC GLAND; SILKBASE;

FRUITS; HORMONES; PEST CONTROL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HLH54F PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SILKWORM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BOMBYX; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BOMBYX MORI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA;

EID: 65349189929     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.80737     Document Type: Article

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