Zelda overcomes the high intrinsic nucleosome barrier at enhancers during Drosophila zygotic genome activation

Genome Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1703-1714

  Sun, Yujia ^a   Nien, Chung Yi ^a   Chen, Kai ^b   Liu, Hsiao Yun ^a   Johnston, Jeff ^b   Zeitlinger, Julia ^b,c   Rushlow, Christine ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCOCCAL NUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZELDA PROTEIN; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NUCLEOSOME; ZELDA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ANIMAL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; NUCLEOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84946550182     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.192542.115     Document Type: Article

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