Dissecting the functional specificities of two Hox proteins

Genes and Development

Volumn 24, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1533-1545

  Joshi, Rohit ^a   Sun, Liping ^a   Mann, Richard ^a  

^a NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity regulation; DNA binding; Homeodomain proteins; Hox genes; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; TERNARY COMPLEX FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77954854598     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1936910     Document Type: Article

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