| First Author | Tamkun JW | Year | 1992 |
| Journal | Cell | Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 3 | Pages | 561-72 |
| PubMed ID | 1346755 | Mgi Jnum | J:19594 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:67760 | Doi | 10.1016/0092-8674(92)90191-e |
| Citation | Tamkun JW, et al. (1992) brahma: a regulator of Drosophila homeotic genes structurally related to the yeast transcriptional activator SNF2/SWI2. Cell 68(3):561-72 |
| abstractText | The brahma (brm) gene is required for the activation of multiple homeotic genes in Drosophila. Loss-of-function brm mutations suppress mutations in Polycomb, a repressor of homeotic genes, and cause developmental defects similar to those arising from insufficient expression of the homeotic genes of the Antennapedia and Bithorax complexes. The brm gene encodes a 1638 residue protein that is similar to SNF2/SWI2, a protein involved in transcriptional activation in yeast, suggesting possible models for the role of brm in the transcriptional activation of homeotic genes. In addition, both brm and SNF2 contain a 77 amino acid motif that is found in other Drosophila, yeast, and human regulatory proteins and may be characteristic of a new family of regulatory proteins. |
