Highly parallel assays of tissue-specific enhancers in whole Drosophila embryos

Nature Methods

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 774-780

  Gisselbrecht, Stephen S ^a   Barrera, Luis A ^a,b,c   Porsch, Martin ^a,d   Aboukhalil, Anton ^a,e   Estep, Preston W ^f   Vedenko, Anastasia ^a   Palagi, Alexandre ^a,g   Kim, Yongsok ^h   Zhu, Xianmin ^h   Busser, Brian W ^h   Gamble, Caitlin E ^h   Iagovitina, Antonina ^a,b   Singhania, Aditi ^h   Michelson, Alan M ^h   Bulyk, Martha L ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^e Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^f TeloMe Inc   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^h NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MESODERM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

EID: 84881442078     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2558     Document Type: Article

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