Male-specific lethal complex in Drosophila counteracts histone acetylation and does not mediate dosage compensation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Sun, Lin ^a   Fernandez, Harvey R ^a   Donohue, Ryan C ^a,c   Li, Jilong ^b   Cheng, Jianlin ^b   Birchler, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE MOF; HYBRID PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; MALE; MALE SPECIFIC LETHAL COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME;

ACETYLATION; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, X-LINKED; HISTONES; MALE; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84874480921     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1222542110     Document Type: Article

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