Article
Drosophila TFIID binds to a conserved downstream basal promoter element that is present in many TATA-box-deficient promoters.
Genes & development - 15 Mar 1996
Burke T W, Kadonaga J T
Abstract excerpt
We describe the identification and characterization of a conserved downstream basal promoter element that is present in a subset of Drosophila TATA-box-deficient (TATA-less) promoters by using purified, epitope-tagged TFIID complex (eTFIID) from embryos of transgenic Drosophila. DNase I footprint...
Topics
- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Consensus Sequence
- Conserved Sequence
- DNA Footprinting
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Deoxyribonuclease I
- Drosophila
- Enhancer Elements, Genetic
- Epitopes
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Sequence Deletion