Quantitatively predictable control of Drosophila transcriptional enhancers in vivo with engineered transcription factors

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 292-298

  Crocker, Justin ^a   Ilsley, Garth R ^b   Stern, David L ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; ECTOPIC EXPRESSION; EMBRYO; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE REPRESSION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84959571624     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3509     Document Type: Article

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