Impacts of the ubiquitous factor Zelda on Bicoid-dependent DNA binding and transcription in Drosophila

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 608-621

  Xu, Zhe ^a   Chen, Hongtao ^a,b   Ling, Jia ^a   Yu, Danyang ^a,c   Struffi, Paolo ^a,d   Small, Stephen ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Center for Integrative Biology   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNA binding; Drosophila; Enhancer; Pattern formation; Pioneer factor; Transcription

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BICOID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZELDA PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DOWN REGULATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GENOTYPE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; ENHANCER; PATTERN FORMATION; PIONEER FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84896340007     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.234534.113     Document Type: Article

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