Role of architecture in the function and specificity of two notch-regulated transcriptional enhancer modules

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Feng ^a,b   Posakony, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

M ALPHA ENHANCER PROTEIN; PROTEIN ASE5; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SUPPRESSOR OF HAIRLESS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; ORBIT; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SENSE ORGANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84864595830     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002796     Document Type: Article

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