Drosophila Tcf and Groucho interact to repress wingless signalling activity

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6702, 1998, Pages 604-608

  Cavallo, Robert A ^a   Cox, Rachel T ^a   Moline, Melissa M ^b   Roose, Jeroen ^c   Polevoy, Gordon A ^a   Clevers, Hans ^c   Peifer, Mark ^a   Bejsovec, Amy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GROUCHO PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; MONKEY; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ARMADILLO DOMAIN PROTEINS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; INSECT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; ARMADILLO; HEXAPODA;

EID: 0032497513     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26982     Document Type: Article

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