Genome-wide identification of cis-regulatory motifs and modules underlying gene coregulation using statistics and phylogeny

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 33, 2010, Pages 14615-14620

  Rouault, Hervé ^a   Mazouni, Khalil ^a,b   Couturier, Lydie ^a,b   Hakim, Vincent ^a   Schweisguth, François ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

Cis regulation; Gene regulatory network; Neural development; Phylogenomics; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LOLA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; LARVA; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NEURAL STEM CELL; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSE ORGAN; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; LOLA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77957034280     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002876107     Document Type: Article

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