Both the functional specificity and autoregulative activity of two ascidian T-box genes HrBra and HrTbx6 are likely to be mediated by the DNA-binding domain

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 173-185

  Takahashi, Hiroki ^a,b   Mitani, Yasuo ^c   Satoh, Nori ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachyury; DNA binding domain; Functional specificity; T box genes; Tbx6

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN HRBRA; PROTEIN HRTBX6; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BRACHYURY; DNA BINDING; GENE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; HRBRA GENE; HRTBX6 GENE; INVERTEBRATE; NONHUMAN; NOTOCHORD; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLES; MUTAGENESIS; NOTOCHORD; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; T-BOX DOMAIN PROTEINS; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALIA; ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 18744409108     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.2005.00793.x     Document Type: Article

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