Transcriptional activation is a conserved feature of the early embryonic factor zelda that requires a cluster of four zinc fingers for DNA binding and a low-complexity activation domain

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 290, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3508-3518

  Hamm, Danielle C ^a   Bondra, Eliana R ^a   Harrison, Melissa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION; ZINC;

ACTIVATION DOMAIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS; SEQUENCE CONSERVATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATIONS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

GENOMIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZELDA PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; ZELDA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; EARLY EXPRESSED GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WASP; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; METAZOA; NASONIA VITRIPENNIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84922369749     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.602292     Document Type: Article

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