Sexual dimorphism in diverse metazoans is regulated by a novel class of intertwined zinc fingers

Genes and Development

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1750-1764

  Zhu, Lingyang ^a,b   Wilken, Jill ^c   Phillips, Nelson B ^d   Narendra, Umadevi ^d   Chan, Ging ^a   Stratton, Stephen M ^c   Kent, Stephen B ^c   Weiss, Michael A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Gryphon Therapeutics   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA binding protein; Drosophila melanogaster; Gene regulation; NMR; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COURTSHIP; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; METAZOON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HYDROGEN BONDING; INSECT PROTEINS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; ZINC; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0034661247     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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