Establishment of a Developmental Compartment Requires Interactions between Three Synergistic Cis-regulatory Modules

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Bieli, Dimitri ^a   Kanca, Oguz ^a   Requena, David ^b   Hamaratoglu, Fisun ^c   Gohl, Daryl ^d,f   Schedl, Paul ^d   Affolter, Markus ^a   Slattery, Matthew ^e   Müller, Martin ^a   Estella, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL GENETICS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CELL LINEAGE; CIS REGULATORY MODULE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GENE LOCUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMAGINAL DISC; MORPHOGENESIS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; WING;

AP PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ENGRAIL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIM HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMAGINAL DISCS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WINGS, ANIMAL;

EID: 84946606787     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005376     Document Type: Article

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