Shadow enhancers enable hunchback bifunctionality in the Drosophila embryo

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

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 785-790

  Staller, Max V ^a   Vincent, Ben J ^a   Bragdon, Meghan D J ^a   Lydiard Martin, Tara ^a   Wunderlich, Zeba ^a   Estrada, Javier ^a   DePace, Angela H ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifunctional transcription factor; Computational model; Drosophila development; Enhancer; Hunchback

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HUNCHBACK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTODERM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84921534874     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413877112     Document Type: Article

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