Structural and functional analysis of N-terminal point mutants of the human estrogen receptor

Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 57, Issue 5-6, 1996, Pages 293-300

  Graumann, Klaus ^a   Wittliff, James L ^a,b   Raffelsberger, Wolfgang ^b   Miles, Lynne ^c   Jungbauer, Alois ^a   Butt, Tauseef R ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENOUS COMPOUND; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN VARIANT; YEAST;

EID: 0029995965     PISSN: 09600760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0960-0760(95)00274-X     Document Type: Article

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