Molecular mechanism underlying the regulatory specificity of a Drosophila homeodomain protein that specifies myoblast identity

Development

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1164-1174

  Busser, Brian W ^a   Shokri, Leila ^b   Jaeger, Savina A ^c   Gisselbrecht, Stephen S ^b   Singhania, Aditi ^a   Berger, Michael F ^b   Zhou, Bo ^b   Bulyk, Martha L ^b,d,e,f   Michelson, Alan M ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Homeodomain; Myoblast

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MUSCLE SEGMENT HOMEOBOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SLOUCH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; MESODERM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUSCLES; MYOBLASTS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84857321577     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.077362     Document Type: Article

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