Polycomb silencing of the Drosophila 4E-BP gene regulates imaginal disc cell growth

Developmental Biology

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-124

  Mason Suares, Heather ^a   Tie, Feng ^a   Yan, Christopher M ^a,b   Harte, Peter J ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4E binding protein; Cell growth; Polycomb silencing; Thor gene

Indexed keywords

DNA; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MESSENGER RNA; POLYCOMB GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BMI1 PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; POLYCOMB PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; THOR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GROWTH REGULATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; IMAGINAL DISC; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PUPATION; THOR GENE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; ALLELE; ANIMAL; CROSS BREEDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CROSSES, GENETIC; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDE INITIATION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; POLYCOMB REPRESSIVE COMPLEX 1; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84881500696     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.03.011     Document Type: Article

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