MEF2B is a potent transactivator expressed in early myogenic lineages

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3814-3824

  Molkentin, Jeffery D ^a   Firulli, Anthony B ^a   Black, Brian L ^a   Martin, James F ^b   Hustad, Carolyn M ^c   Copeland, Neal ^c   Jenkins, Nancy ^c   Lyons, Gary ^d   Olson, Eric N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; EXON; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; INTRON; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029895310     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3814     Document Type: Article

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