Modular organization of Pax/Homeodomain proteins in transcriptional regulation

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 378, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 863-872

  Sheng, Guojun ^a   Harris, Esther ^a   Bertuccioli, Claudio ^a   Desplan, Claude ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeodomain; Paired domain; Pax genes; Specificity; Transactivation

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030873716     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/bchm.1997.378.8.863     Document Type: Article

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