The insulator protein suppressor of hairy-wing is an essential transcriptional repressor in the Drosophila ovary

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 3613-3623

  Soshnev, Alexey A ^a,b   Baxley, Ryan M ^a   Manak, J Robert ^a,b   Tan, Kai ^b,c   Geyer, Pamela K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin insulator; Drosophila oogenesis; Neural gene expression; Rbp9; Su(Hw); Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN 9; SUPPRESSOR OF HAIRY WING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

CHROMATIN INSULATOR; DROSOPHILA OOGENESIS; NEURAL GENE EXPRESSION; RBP9; SU(HW); TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA PRIMERS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OOGENESIS; OVARY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84881563163     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.094953     Document Type: Article

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