Developmental effects of ectopic expression of the glucocorticoid receptor DNA binding domain are alleviated by an amino acid substitution that interferes with homeodomain binding

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 7106-7122

  Wang, Jun Ming ^a   Préfontaine, Gratien G ^b   Lemieux, Madeleine E ^a   Pope, Louise ^a   Akimenko, Marie Andrée ^b,c   Haché, Robert J G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HORMONE BINDING; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING;

ANIMALIA; DANIO RERIO;

EID: 0242704339     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.10.7106     Document Type: Article

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