Five years on the wings of fork head

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-20

  Kaufmann, Eckhard ^a   Knöchel, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fork head; HNF 3; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE; YEAST CELL;

EID: 17344379513     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0925-4773(96)00539-4     Document Type: Article

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