Structural and functional analyses of disease-causing missense mutations in the forkhead domain of FOXC1

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 2993-3005

  Saleem, Ramsey A ^a   Banerjee Basu, Sharmila ^b   Berry, Fred B ^a   Baxevanis, Andreas D ^b   Walter, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXC2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXENFELD REIGER MALFORMATION; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME 6P; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ELECTRICITY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CODON, NONSENSE; COS CELLS; DISEASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROSTATICS; EYE ABNORMALITIES; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GLAUCOMA; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344443182     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddg324     Document Type: Article

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