AIRE encodes a nuclear protein co-localizing with cytoskeletal filaments: Altered sub-cellular distribution of mutants lacking the PHD zinc fingers

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 277-290

  Rinderle, Cornelia ^a   Christensen, Hoang My ^a   Schweiger, Susann ^a   Lehrach, Hans ^a   Yaspo, Marie Laure ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME 21Q; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUCOCUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; COS CELLS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0032924111     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/8.2.277     Document Type: Article

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