Identification and characterization of interactions between the vertebrate polycomb-group protein BMI1 and human homologs of polyhomeotic

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 2326-2335

  Gunster, Marco J ^a   Satijn, David P E ^a   Hamer, Karien M ^a   Den Blaauwen, Jan L ^a   De Bruijn, Diederik ^b   Alkema, Mark J ^c   Van Lohuizen, Maarten ^d   Van Driel, Roel ^a   Otte, Arie P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE ISOLATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0030999876     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.17.4.2326     Document Type: Article

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