Transcriptional Control of Steroid Biosynthesis Genes in the Drosophila Prothoracic Gland by Ventral Veins Lacking and Knirps

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Danielsen, E Thomas ^a   Moeller, Morten E ^a   Dorry, Elad ^a   Komura Kawa, Tatsuya ^b   Fujimoto, Yoshinori ^c   Troelsen, Jesper T ^d   Herder, Rachel ^e   O'Connor, Michael B ^e   Niwa, Ryusuke ^b,f   Rewitz, Kim F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE; KNIRPS PROTEIN; PROTHORACICOTROPIC HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VENTRAL VEINS LACKING PROTEIN; CHOLESTEROL; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; INSECT HORMONE; KNI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MOLTING DEFECTIVE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; S6 KINASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; VVL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ECDYSONE GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOCRINE GLAND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CONSERVATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTHORACIC GLAND; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; SECRETION (PROCESS); TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHOLESTEROL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECDYSONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INSECT HORMONES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES, 70-KDA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84903435987     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004343     Document Type: Article

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