The glutamine-rich domain of the Drosophila GAGA factor is necessary for amyloid fibre formation in vitro, but not for chromatin remodelling

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 285, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 527-544

  Agianian, Bogos ^b   Leonard, Kevin ^b   Bonte, Edgar ^a   Van Der Zandt, Hans ^b   Becker, Peter B ^a   Tucker, Paul A ^b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Amyloid; Chromatin remodelling; Drosophila; GAGA; Glutamine rich

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; GLUTAMINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; DROSOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0033555664     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2355     Document Type: Article

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