Functional and regulatory interactions between Hox and extradenticle genes

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 261-273

  Azpiazu, Natalia ^a   Morata, Ginés ^a  

^a CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extradenticle; Hox genes; Nuclear translocation; Post translational control

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031964860     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.2.261     Document Type: Article

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