Choose your partners: dimerization in eukaryotic transcription factors

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 220-229

  Amoutzias, Grigoris D ^a   Robertson, David L ^b   Van de Peer, Yves ^a   Oliver, Stephen G ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DRUG DESIGN; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EVOLUTION; GENE CONTROL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 43849088207     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2008.02.002     Document Type: Review

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