The Drosophila Myc gene, diminutive, is a positive regulator of the Sex-lethal establishment promoter, Sxl-Pe

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

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1543-1548

  Kappes, Gretchen ^a   Deshpande, Girish ^a   Mulvey, Brett B ^b   Horabin, Jamila I ^b   Schedl, Paul ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIMINUTIVE GENE; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE MUTATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX LETHAL GENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, X-LINKED; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEX FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 79952138009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017006108     Document Type: Article

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