Drosophila Distal-less and Rotund Bind a Single Enhancer Ensuring Reliable and Robust bric-a-brac2 Expression in Distinct Limb Morphogenetic Fields

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Baanannou, Aissette ^a   Mojica Vazquez, Luis Humberto ^a   Darras, Gaylord ^a,c   Couderc, Jean Louis ^b   Cribbs, David L ^a   Boube, Muriel ^a   Bourbon, Henri Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN DISTAL LESS; PROTEIN ROTUND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTENNA (ORGAN); ARTICLE; BAB2 GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEG; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; RELIABILITY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EXTREMITIES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WING;

DROSOPHILIDAE;

EID: 84879650417     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003581     Document Type: Article

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