Specific residues in the Pbx homeodomain differentially modulate the DNA-binding activity of Hox and Engrailed proteins

Development

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1089-1098

  Peltenburg, Lucy T C ^a,b   Murre, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cooperative DNA binding; Engrailed; Homeodomain proteins; Hox; Pbx

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; DNA BINDING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO MAYDIS; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO MAYDIS;

EID: 0030894303     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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