Functional synthetic Antennapedia genes and the dual roles of YPWM motif and linker size in transcriptional activation and repression

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

Volumn 108, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 11959-11964

  Papadopoulos, Dimitrios K ^a   Reséndez Pérez, Diana ^b   Cárdenas Chávez, Diana L ^b   Villanueva Segura, Karina ^b   Canales del Castillo, Ricardo ^b   Felix, Daniel A ^a,c   Fünfschilling, Raphael ^a,d   Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antenna to tarsus transformation; Homeotic transformations; Hox specificity; Synthetic genes

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC DNA; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EX VIVO STUDY; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; YPWM MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BODY PATTERNING; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79961072841     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1108686108     Document Type: Article

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