The insulator protein CTCF regulates Drosophila steroidogenesis

The steroid hormone ecdysone is a central regulator of insect development. In this report we show that CTCF expression in the prothoracic gland is required for full transcriptional activation of the Halloween genes spookier, shadow and noppera-bo, which encode ecdysone biosynthetic enzymes, and for...

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Main Authors: Ujué Fresán, Sergi Cuartero, Michael B. O'Connor, M. Lluisa Espinàs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Company of Biologists 2015-07-01
Series:Biology Open
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Online Access:http://bio.biologists.org/content/4/7/852