Functional analysis of paired box missense mutations in the PAX6 gene

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 381-386

  Tang, Hank Kejun ^a   Chao, Lian Yu ^a   Saunders, Grady F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIRIDIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MALFORMATION; HOMEOBOX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSACTIVATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; ANIRIDIA; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; EYE PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MICE; MUTATION; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031059181     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.3.381     Document Type: Article

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