Mesodermal repression of single-minded in drosophila embryo is mediated by a cluster of snail-binding sites proximal to the early promoter

BMB Reports

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 577-582

  Park, Kye Won ^a   Hong, Joung Woo ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Direct repression; Drosophila embryo; Mesodermal repression; Single minded; Snail

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SIM PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MESODERM; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; MESODERM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

GASTROPODA;

EID: 84871433815     PISSN: 19766696     EISSN: 1976670X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5483/BMBRep.2012.45.10.105     Document Type: Article

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