Modulation of Caenorhabditis elegans transcription factor activity by HIM-8 and the related zinc-finger ZIM proteins

Genetics

Volumn 177, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 1221-1226

  Sun, Hongliu ^a   Nelms, Brian L ^a,c   Sleiman, Sama F ^b   Chamberlin, Helen M ^b   Hanna Rose, Wendy ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR EGL 13; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DNA BINDING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIM 8 GENE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME; ZIM GENE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC FINGERS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 35549006667     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.107.070847     Document Type: Article

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