Imaging the localized protein interactions between Pit-1 and the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein α in the living pituitary cell nucleus

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-345

  Day, Richard N ^a   Voss, Ty C ^a   Enwright III, John F ^a,d   Booker, Cynthia F ^a   Periasamy, Ammasi ^b   Schaufele, Fred ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AUSTIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROLACTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ARTICLE; BLEACHING; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA BINDING; ENERGY TRANSFER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; TRANSACTIVATION;

BLOTTING, WESTERN; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEIN-ALPHA; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; HELA CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PITUITARY GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037340121     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2002-0136     Document Type: Article

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