Functional dissection of the Hox protein Abdominal-B in Drosophila cell culture

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 414, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 761-766

  Zhai, Zongzhao ^a,b,c   Yang, Xingke ^a   Lohmann, Ingrid ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Abdominal B; Cut; Hox protein; Transcriptional activation; VP16

Indexed keywords

HOX PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN ABDOMINAL B; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN VP16; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 80555130959     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.09.154     Document Type: Article

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