Sex-specific and non-sex-specific oligomerization domains in both of the doublesex transcription factors from Drosophila melanogaster

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 3106-3111

  An, Wenqian ^a   Cho, Sayeon ^a   Ishii, Haruhiko ^a   Wensink, Pieter C ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DOUBLESEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 0029954009     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.16.6.3106     Document Type: Article

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