DNA binding and transcriptional repression by DAX-1 blocks steroidogenesis

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6657, 1997, Pages 311-315

  Zazopoulos, Emmanuel ^a   Lalli, Enzo ^a   Stocco, Douglas M ^b   Sassone Corsi, Paolo ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COS CELLS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030728417     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36899     Document Type: Article

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