The Drosophila Pipsqueak protein defines a new family of helix-turn-helix DNA-binding proteins

Development Genes and Evolution

Volumn 212, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 152-157

  Siegmund, Thomas ^a   Lehmann, Michael ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bric brac; CENP B; Site specific recombinases; Transposases

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN PSQ; RESOLVASE; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARACHNIDA; ECHINOIDEA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036944528     PISSN: 0949944X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00427-002-0219-2     Document Type: Article

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