Mad proteins contain a dominant transcription repression domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 5772-5781

  Ayer, Donald E ^a,b   Laherty, Carol D ^a   Lawrence, Quentin A ^a   Armstrong, Allison P ^a   Eisenman, Robert N ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0029814513     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.10.5772     Document Type: Article

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