Sex reversal by loss of the C-terminal transactivation domain of human SOX9

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 230-232

  Südbeck, Peter ^a   Schmitz, M Lienhard ^a   Baeuerle, Patrick A ^a,b   Scherer, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SKELETON MALFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL EXTRACTS; CELLS, CULTURED; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLORHINI; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0029977067     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0696-230     Document Type: Article

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