Groucho proteins: Transcriptional corepressors for specific subsets of DNA-binding transcription factors in vertebrates and invertebrates

Genes and Development

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 1998, Pages 1931-1940

  Fisher, Alfred L ^a   Caudy, Michael ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GROUCHO PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DROSOPHILA; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECRETION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0032127990     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.13.1931     Document Type: Review

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