Pbx modulation of Hox homeodomain amino-terminal arms establishes different DNA-binding specificities across the Hox locus

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1734-1745

  Chang, Ching Pin ^a   Brocchieri, Luciano ^b   Shen, Wei Fang ^c   Largman, Corey ^c   Cleary, Michael L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029939199     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.4.1734     Document Type: Article

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