The function of hairy-related bHLH repressor proteins in cell fate decisions

BioEssays

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 298-306

  Fisher, Alfred ^a   Caudy, Michael ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHAETE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; E(SPL) REGION TRANSCRIPT MDELTA PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GROUCHO PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; INSECT PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NOTCH PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MORPHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SENSE ORGAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSACTIVATION; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RECEPTORS, NOTCH; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SENSE ORGANS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032054380     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199804)20:4<298::AID-BIES6>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Review

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