From head to toes: The multiple facets of Sox proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1409-1420

  Wegner, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL TYPE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LAYER; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033559518     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/27.6.1409     Document Type: Review

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