Role of intrinsically disordered protein regions/domains in transcriptional regulation

Life Sciences

Volumn 84, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 189-193

  Garza, Anna S ^a   Ahmad, Nihal ^b   Kumar, Raj ^c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c PA Professor of Surgery Department of Clinical Sciences The Geisinger Commonwealth Medical College Scranton   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 58249105355     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2008.12.002     Document Type: Review

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