Enhancer-promoter communication at the Drosophila engrailed locus

Development

Volumn 136, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3067-3075

  Kwon, Deborah ^a   Mucci, Diane ^b   Langlais, Kristofor K ^a   Americo, Jeffrey L ^a,c   DeVido, Sarah K ^a   Cheng, Yuzhong ^a   Kassis, Judith A ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Promoter specificity; Regulatory DNA; Transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ENGRAILED PROTEIN; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT SHOCK; IMAGINAL DISC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT HORMONES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 70350023629     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.036426     Document Type: Article

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