Neural precursor-specific expression of multiple drosophila genes is driven by dual enhancer modules with overlapping function

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 48, 2014, Pages 17194-17199

  Miller, Steven W ^a   Rebeiz, Mark ^a,b   Atanasov, Jenny E ^a   Posakony, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

BHLH repressors; Cis regulatory code; Dual enhancer modules; Neural precursors; Proneural proteins |

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NEUR PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHYLLOPOD PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; SENSELESS PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL STEM CELL; SENSE ORGAN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BINDING SITES; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SENSE ORGANS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 84914169002     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415308111     Document Type: Review

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