Genome-Wide Screens for In Vivo Tinman Binding Sites Identify Cardiac Enhancers with Diverse Functional Architectures

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jin, Hong ^a   Stojnic, Robert ^b   Adryan, Boris ^b   Ozdemir, Anil ^c   Stathopoulos, Angelike ^c   Frasch, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DORSOCROSS; PROTEIN PANNIER; PROTEIN TINMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EMBRYO; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEART DEVELOPMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MACHINE LEARNING; MESODERM; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME, INSECT; HEART; MESODERM; MYOCARDIUM; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84873486967     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003195     Document Type: Article

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