Differential pleiotropy and HOX functional organization

Developmental Biology

Volumn 398, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Sivanantharajah, Lovesha ^a   Percival Smith, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differential pleiotropy; Ensemble mediated allostery; Evolution and development; Functional domain structure; HOX; SLiMs; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSE; HOMEOTIC SELECTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GAL4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ALLOSTERIC SITE; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84922534892     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.11.001     Document Type: Review

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