Insights into hox protein function from a large scale combinatorial analysis of protein domains

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Merabet, Samir ^a,b   Litim Mecheri, Isma ^a,b   Karlsson, Daniel ^c   Dixit, Richa ^d   Saadaoui, Mehdi ^a,b   Monier, Bruno ^a,b   Brun, Christine ^b,e,f   Thor, Stefan ^c   Vijayraghavan, K ^d   Perrin, Laurent ^a,b   Pradel, Jacques ^a,b   Graba, Yacine ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^e Aix Marseille university   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINALA PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; HOX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ABD A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; ABD-A PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DPP PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; WG PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; WNT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ANIMAL; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL LINEAGE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WNT1 PROTEIN;

EID: 80055089834     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002302     Document Type: Article

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