Armadillo and dTCF: A marriage made in the nucleus

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 459-466

  Cavallo, Robert ^a   Rubenstein, David ^b   Peifer, Mark ^c  

^a Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MOTILITY; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030870391     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80071-8     Document Type: Article

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