The human transcriptional repressor protein NAB1: Expression and biological activity

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1493, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 289-301

  Thiel, Gerald ^a,b   Kaufmann, Katrin ^a   Magin, Angela ^a   Lietz, Michael ^a,b   Bach, Karl ^a   Cramer, Matthias ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early growth response 1; GAL4; NAB1; Protein domain; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HUMAN; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034597331     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4781(00)00207-4     Document Type: Article

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