Genome-level identification of targets of Hox protein Ultrabithorax in Drosophila: Novel mechanisms for target selection

Scientific Reports

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Agrawal, Pavan ^a,b   Habib, Farhat ^a   Yelagandula, Ramesh ^b   Shashidhara, L S ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Centre for Cellular   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBX PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA INTERFERENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DOWN-REGULATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, INSECT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84859748710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00205     Document Type: Article

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