The function of the Aristaless-related homeobox (Arx) gene product as a transcriptional repressor is diminished by mutations associated with X-linked mental retardation (XLMR)

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 377, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-78

  Fullenkamp, Amy N ^a   El Hodiri, Heithem M ^a,b,c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aristaless; Arx; CtBP; Groucho; TLE; Transcriptional repression; XLMR

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; OCTAPEPTIDE;

ARISTALESS RELATED HOMEOBOX GENE; ARTICLE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOMEOBOX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SILENCER ELEMENT; X LINKED MENTAL RETARDATION;

ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MENTAL RETARDATION, X-LINKED; MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XENOPUS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 54849430923     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.09.116     Document Type: Article

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