Testis-specific TAF homologs collaborate to control a tissue-specific transcription program

Development

Volumn 131, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 5297-5308

  Hiller, Mark ^a,b   Chen, Xin ^a   Pringle, M Jodeane ^a   Suchorolski, Martin ^a   Sancak, Yasemin ^a   Viswanathan, Sridhar ^a   Bolival, Benjamin ^a   Lin, Ting Yi ^a   Marino, Susan ^a   Fuller, Margaret T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b GOUCHER COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Spermatocyte; Spermatogenesis; TAF; TFHD; Transcription

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE II; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 12; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 4; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 5; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 6; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; HISTONES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOCYTES; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SECALE CEREALE;

EID: 9444236234     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01314     Document Type: Article

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