Examination of mammalian basic helix-loop-helix transcription factors using a yeast one-hybrid system

DNA and Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-8

  Mak, Kam Leung ^a   Longcor, Lea C ^a   Johnson, Sally E ^a   Lemercier, Claudie ^a   To, Robert Q ^a   Konieczny, Stephen F ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030045438     PISSN: 10445498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/dna.1996.15.1     Document Type: Article

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