Grainyhead and Zelda compete for binding to the promoters of the earliest-expressed Drosophila genes

Developmental Biology

Volumn 345, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 248-255

  Harrison, Melissa M ^a   Botchan, Michael R ^a   Cline, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastoderm; Drosophila; Grainyhead; TAGteam; Transcription; Zelda

Indexed keywords

GRAINYHEAD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZELDA PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GRH PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ZELDA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING COMPETITION; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RABBIT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77955923247     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2010.06.026     Document Type: Article

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