Transcriptional Dynamics Elicited by a Short Pulse of Notch Activation Involves Feed-Forward Regulation by E(spl)/Hes Genes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Housden, Ben E ^a,d   Fu, Audrey Q ^a,b,e   Krejci, Alena ^a,f,g   Bernard, Fred ^a,h   Fischer, Bettina ^a,b   Tavaré, Simon ^c   Russell, Steven ^a,b   Bray, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^g INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^h CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH RECEPTOR; RNA POLYMERASE II; SUPPRESSOR FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BHLH GENE; CELL CULTURE; DROSOPHILA; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HES GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE II; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84873505356     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003162     Document Type: Article

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