Combinatorial activation and concentration-dependent repression of the drosophila even skipped stripe 3+7 enhancer

Development

Volumn 138, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 4291-4299

  Struffi, Paolo ^a,b   Corado, Maria ^a   Kaplan, Leah ^a   Yu, Danyang ^a,c   Rushlow, Christine ^a   Small, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combinatorial control; Drosophila; Embryogenesis; Repression; Transcription

Indexed keywords

EVEN SKIPPED PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; KNIRPS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZELDA PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLASTODERM; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSGENES; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 80052477170     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.065987     Document Type: Article

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