The WRPW motif of the hairy-related basic helix-loop-helix repressor proteins acts as a 4-amino-acid transcription repression and protein-protein interaction domain

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2670-2677

  Fisher, Alfred L ^a   Ohsako, Shunji ^a,b   Caudy, Michael ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030010697     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.6.2670     Document Type: Article

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