B-cell coactivator OBF-1 exhibits unusual transcriptional properties and functions in a DNA-bound Oct-1-dependent fashion

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 4247-4254

  Krapp, Andrea ^a   Strubin, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032973686     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.6.4247     Document Type: Article

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