A modular system of DNA enhancer elements mediates tissue-specific activation of transcription by high dietary zinc in C. elegans

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 803-816

  Roh, Hyun Cheol ^a,b   Dimitrov, Ivan ^a   Deshmukh, Krupa ^a   Zhao, Guoyan ^a   Warnhoff, Kurt ^a   Cabrera, Daniel ^a   Tsai, Wendy ^a   Kornfeld, Kerry ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; ELT-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; HELMINTH DNA; MDT-15 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; ZINC;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; ENHANCER REGION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CADMIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, HELMINTH; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; ZINC;

EID: 84945180435     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1360     Document Type: Article

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