Enhancer additivity and non-additivity are determined by enhancer strength in the Drosophila embryo

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue AUGUST2015, 2015, Pages

  Bothma, Jacques P ^a   Garcia, Hernan G ^a,b   Ng, Samuel ^a   Perry, Michael W ^a,c   Gregor, Thomas ^b   Levine, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; KNI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SNA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CLONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; OPTICAL IMAGING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84940511295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07956.001     Document Type: Article

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