How do Hox transcription factors find their target genes in the nucleus of living cells?

Biologie Aujourd'hui

Volumn 205, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 75-85

  Gehring, Walter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy (FCS); Homeodomain; Hox genes; NMR spectroscopy; Single Molecule Imaging; Target genes

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAPEDIA PROTEIN; DNA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; SALIVARY GLAND; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTENNAPEDIA HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; SALIVARY GLANDS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

BILATERIA;

EID: 80051728360     PISSN: 21050678     EISSN: 21050686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/jbio/2011012     Document Type: Article

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