Zelda is differentially required for chromatin accessibility, transcription factor binding, and gene expression in the early Drosophila embryo

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1715-1726

  Schulz, Katharine N ^a   Bondra, Eliana R ^a   Moshe, Arbel ^b   Villalta, Jacqueline E ^c   Lieb, Jason D ^d   Kaplan, Tommy ^b   McKay, Daniel J ^e   Harrison, Melissa M ^a  

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

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN ZELDA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ZELDA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84946546024     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.192682.115     Document Type: Article

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