Repressor domain and nuclear localization signal of the murine Hoxa-11 protein are located in the homeodomain: No evidence for role of poly alanine stretches in transcriptional repression

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution

Volumn 304, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 468-475

  Roth, Jutta Johanna ^a,b   Breitenbach, Michael ^b   Wagner, Günter Paul ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOXA11 PROTEIN, MOUSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; METAZOA; MURINAE;

EID: 27844436671     PISSN: 15525007     EISSN: 15525015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.21061     Document Type: Article

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