DNA-binding specificity changes in the evolution of forkhead transcription factors

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

Volumn 110, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 12349-12354

  Nakagawa, So ^a,b   Gisselbrecht, Stephen S ^c   Rogers, Julia M ^a,c   Hartl, Daniel L ^a   Bulyk, Martha L ^a,c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^c Division of Genetics   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Protein DNA interactions; Transcription factor binding site motif

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMOEBOZOA; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE CONVERSION; INVERTED REPEAT; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; OPISTHOKONTA; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PROTEIN-DNA INTERACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING SITE MOTIF;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84880681583     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310430110     Document Type: Article

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