A role for Groucho tetramerization in transcriptional repression

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 7259-7268

  Chen, Guoqing ^a   Nguyen, Pierre H ^a   Courey, Albert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; TETRAMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEACETYLATION; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; HYDRODYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARACHNIDA; DROSOPHILA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0031785159     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.12.7259     Document Type: Article

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