Hox transcription factors and their elusive mammalian gene targets

Heredity

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 88-96

  Svingen, T ^a   Tonissen, K F ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gene targets; Homeobox; Hox; Promoter; Repression; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; LABORATORY METHOD; MAMMAL; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33748416500     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: 13652540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800847     Document Type: Short Survey

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