PBX and MEIS as non-DNA-binding partners in trimeric complexes with HOX proteins

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 7577-7588

  Shanmugam, Kandavel ^a,b   Green, Nancy C ^a   Rambaldi, Isabel ^a   Saragovi, H Uri ^a,b   Featherstone, Mark S ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; MEIS PROTEIN; PROTEIN PBX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

EID: 0032694247     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.11.7577     Document Type: Article

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