Drosophila Bicoid is a substrate of sumoylation and its activator function is subject to inhibition by this post-translational modification

FEBS Letters

Volumn 586, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1719-1723

  Liu, Junbo ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bicoid; Morphogen; Sumoylation; Transcription repression

Indexed keywords

BICOID; INSECT PROTEIN; LYSINE; SUMO PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; INSECT CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SUMOYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LYSINE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SUMOYLATION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84861993300     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2012.04.059     Document Type: Article

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