Nuclear entry, oligomerization, and DNA binding of the Drosophila heat shock transcription factor are regulated by a unique nuclear localization sequence

Genes and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1299-1314

  Zandi, Ebrahim ^a,b   Tran, Thanh Nga T ^a   Chamberlain, Winston ^a   Parker, Carl S ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA binding regulation; nuclear localization; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; GENETIC REGULATION; LIGAND BINDING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030911696     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.11.10.1299     Document Type: Article

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