Paired-homeodomain transcription factor PAX4 acts as a transcriptional repressor in early pancreatic development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 8272-8280

  Smith, Stuart B ^a   Ee, Hooi C ^a,c   Conners, Jennifer R ^a   German, Michael S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; GENE REPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PANCREAS ISLET CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033499662     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.12.8272     Document Type: Article

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