Translational fusions with the engrailed repressor domain efficiently convert plant transcription factors into dominant-negative functions

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 4709-4719

  Markel, Heike ^a   Chandler, John ^a   Werr, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; CHIMERIC PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; HORMONE BINDING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABIDOPSIS; DROSOPHILA;

EID: 0036850369     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf591     Document Type: Article

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