Mediator modulates Gli3-dependent sonic hedgehog signaling

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2006, Pages 8667-8682

  Zhou, Haiying ^a   Kim, Seokjoong ^a   Ishii, Shunsuke ^b   Boyer, Thomas G ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b RIKEN TSUKUBA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; HISTONE ACETYLTRANSFERASE CBP; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN MED12; PROTEIN MEDIATOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE II; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GLI3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEDGEHOG PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; LUCIFERASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSFECTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 33845219533     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.00443-06     Document Type: Article

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