Functional domains of paired-like homeoprotein Cart1 and the relationship between dimerization and transcription activity

Genes to Cells

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1135-1147

  Furukawa, Keizo ^a   Iioka, Takashi ^a   Morishita, Mariko ^a   Yamaguchi, Akira ^b   Shindo, Hiroyuki ^a   Namba, Hiroyuki ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^a   Tsukazaki, Tomoo ^a,b  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; CART1 PROTEIN, RAT; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CANCER CELL; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARTILAGE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHONDROSARCOMA; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DOMINANT GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; TRANSACTIVATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036829654     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.2002.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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