Evolutionary conservation and predicted structure of the Drosophila extra sex combs repressor protein

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 6663-6672

  Ng, Joyce ^a   Li, Renhao ^a   Morgan, Kelly ^a   Simon, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

EID: 0030799127     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.11.6663     Document Type: Article

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