Identification of amino acid residues in the caenorhabditis elegans POU protein UNC-86 that mediate UNC-86-MEC-3-DNA ternary complex formation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 4806-4813

  Röckelein, Inge ^a   Röhrig, Sascha ^a   Donhauser, Roland ^a   Eimer, Stefan ^a   Baumeister, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HOST CELL FACTOR C1; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; POU DOMAIN FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 17944399857     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.20.13.4806-4813.2000     Document Type: Article

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