Redundant or separate entities? - Roles of Twist1 and Twist2 as molecular switches during gene transcription

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1177-1186

  Franco, Hector L ^a   Casasnovas, José ^a   Rodríguez Medina, José R ^a   Cadilla, Carmen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CYTOKINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; MYOD PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TWIST2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CANCER GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SWITCHING; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; METASTASIS; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TWIST GENE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OSTEOGENESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TWIST TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 79952326788     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq890     Document Type: Article

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