Transcription activation by the ecdysone receptor (EcR/USP): Identification of activation functions

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 716-731

  Hu, Xiao ^a,c   Cherbas, Lucy ^a   Cherbas, Peter ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jordan Hall ^*  (United States)

^c PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECDYSONE RECEPTOR; HORMONE RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE ACTIVATION; HORMONE ACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECDYSONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, DOMINANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, STEROID; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037385168     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2002-0287     Document Type: Article

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