{"id":8143,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homeodomain_proteins_and_homeobox_genes\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:29","slug":"homeodomain_proteins_and_homeobox_genes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homeodomain_proteins_and_homeobox_genes\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeodomain proteins and homeobox genes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proteins encoded by homeobox genes that are involved in the control of gene expression during morphogenesis and development. &nbsp;A homeobox is a short DNA sequence of about 180 base pairs. &nbsp;Its genes encode protein and bind and regulate the expression of DNA is multicellular organisms. &nbsp;They are present in the genomes of organisms ranging from fruit flies to humans. &nbsp;Their role appears to be determining when particular groups of genes are expressed during embryonic development. &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"amino_acids\">Amino acids<\/a>, <a href=\"dna_-deoxyribonucleic_acid-\">DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)<\/a>, <a href=\"embryogenesis\">Embryogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"hox_genes\">Hox genes<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenesis\">Morphogenesis<\/a>, <a href=\"morphogenetic_field\">Morphogenetic field<\/a>, <a href=\"proteins\">Proteins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proteins encoded by homeobox genes that are involved in the control of gene expression during morphogenesis and development. &nbsp;A homeobox is a short DNA sequence of about 180 base pairs. &nbsp;Its genes encode protein and bind and regulate the expression of DNA is multicellular organisms. &nbsp;They are present in the genomes of organisms ranging from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/homeodomain_proteins_and_homeobox_genes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homeodomain proteins and homeobox genes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}