NELF potentiates gene transcription in the drosophila embryo

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoling ^a,b   Hang, Saiyu ^a   Prazak, Lisa ^a   Gergen, J Peter ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PROTEIN NELF; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NEGATIVE ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77955367829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011498     Document Type: Article

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