Autoactivation of Xenopus MyoD transcription and its inhibition by USF

Cell Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 275-282

  Lun, Yi ^a   Sawadogo, Michèle ^a   Perry, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPRESSOR GENE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMEOSTASIS; MUSCLES; MYOD PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OOCYTES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTORS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031005595     PISSN: 10449523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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