Characterization of the dead ringer gene identifies a novel, highly conserved family of sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 792-799

  Gregory, Stephen L ^a   Kortschak, R Daniel ^a   Kalionis, Bill ^a,b   Saint, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ISOLATION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0030066080     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.3.792     Document Type: Article

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