Non-homeodomain regions of Hox proteins mediate activation versus repression of Six2 via a single enhancer site in vivo

Developmental Biology

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 156-165

  Yallowitz, Alisha R ^a   Gong, Ke Qin ^b   Swinehart, Ilea T ^a   Nelson, Lisa T ^b   Wellik, Deneen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Homeodomain function; Hox regulation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; HOX11 PROTEIN; HOXA2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SIX2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRANCHIAL ARCH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENHANCER REGION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; KIDNEY DEVELOPMENT; MESENCHYME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 70349786412     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: 1095564X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.08.020     Document Type: Article

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