A naturally occurring polymorphism at Drosophila melanogaster Lim3 locus, a homolog of human LHX3/4, affects Lim3 transcription and fly lifespan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Rybina, Olga Yu ^a   Pasyukova, Elena G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; THYMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LHX4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIM3 PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTRON; LIFESPAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUBSTITUTION LINE; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LONGEVITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77958587538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012621     Document Type: Article

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