Two types of zinc fingers are required for dimerization of the serendipity δ transcriptional activator

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 3137-3145

  Payre, François ^a   Buono, Pasqualina ^a,b   Vanzo, Nathalie ^a,c   Vincent, Alain ^a  

^a Centre de Biologie du Développement Bâtiment 4R3   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DRUG BINDING; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030959973     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mcb.17.6.3137     Document Type: Article

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