How I became one of the fathers of a superfamily

Nature Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1027-1031

  Chambon, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMANITIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE RIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; PROGESTERONE; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR GAMMA; RETINOID X RECEPTOR; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN;

BASE PAIRING; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AUTOBIOGRAPHY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 7044221792     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1004-1027     Document Type: Note

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