The snail superfamily of zinc-finger transcription factors

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 155-166

  Nieto, M Angela ^a  

^a INSTITUTO CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SNAIL FAMILY TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANCER INVASION; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIUM; HUMAN; MESENCHYME; METASTASIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TUMOR GROWTH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHICK EMBRYO; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

GASTROPODA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHICK EMBRYO; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0036513626     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm757     Document Type: Review

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