The maternal CCAAT box transcription factor which controls GATA-2 expression is novel and developmentally regulated and contains a double- stranded-RNA-binding subunit

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 5557-5566

  Orford, Robert L ^a   Robinson, Carl ^a   Haydon, Joanna M ^a   Patient, Roger K ^b   Guille, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MESODERM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0031839178     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.18.9.5557     Document Type: Article

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