Gli-type zinc finger proteins as bipotential transducers of Hedgehog signaling

Differentiation

Volumn 70, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 69-76

  Koebernick, Katia ^a   Pieler, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cubitus interruptus; Gli type zinc finger proteins; Gli1; Gli2; Gli3; Hedgehog

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI1; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; CI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GLI PROTEIN; HEDGEHOG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ONCOPROTEIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DROSOPHILA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ERINACEIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HUMANS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0036561818     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-0436.2002.700201.x     Document Type: Review

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