Mutations in the Transcription Elongation Factor SPT5 Disrupt a Reporter for Dosage Compensation in Drosophila

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Prabhakaran, Mahalakshmi ^a,b   Kelley, Richard L ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGIN C; GENOMIC DNA; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL COMPLEX 1; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR B; PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR SPT5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ELONGIN C GENE; EPIGENETICS; EYE PIGMENTATION; FEMALE; GAIN OF FUNCTION MUTATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTONE MODIFICATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MINIWHITE GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; ROX1 TRANSGENE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR SPT5 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENE; X CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, X-LINKED; MALE; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ELONGATION FACTORS;

EID: 84870703302     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003073     Document Type: Article

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