Dorsal-B, a splice variant of the Drosophila factor Dorsal, is a novel Rel/NF-κB transcriptional activator

Gene

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 233-242

  Gross, Isabelle ^a   Georgel, Philippe ^a   Oertel Buchheit, Pascale ^b   Schnarr, Manfred ^b   Reichhart, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UPR CNRS 9022 Reponse Immunitaire   (France)

^b INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Cloning; Development; Immunoiocalization; Insect immunity

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3T3 CELLS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FAT BODY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LARVA; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NF-KAPPA B; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-REL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0033522129     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00595-2     Document Type: Article

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