The recessive phenotype displayed by a dominant negative microphthalmia-associated transcription factor mutant is a result of impaired nuclear localization potential

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1203-1211

  Takebayashi, Kimiko ^a   Chida, Kazuhiro ^b   Tsukamoto, Ikuyo ^c   Morii, Eiichi ^a   Munakata, Hiroshi ^d   Arnheiter, Heinz ^e   Kuroki, Toshio ^b   Kitamura, Yukihiko ^a   Nomura, Shintaro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c NARA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIMIAE; SIMIAN VIRUS; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROPHTHALMIA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; SIMIAN VIRUS 40;

3T3 CELLS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030068826     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.16.3.1203     Document Type: Article

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