Identification of the in vivo casein kinase II phosphorylation site within the homeodomain of the cardiac tisue-specifying homeobox gene product Csx/Nkx2.5

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 526-536

  Kasahara, Hideko ^a   Izumo, Seigo ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN KINASE II;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE DELETION; HOMEOBOX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032959891     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.526     Document Type: Article

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