Snail/Gfi-1 (SNAG) family zinc finger proteins in transcription regulation, chromatin dynamics, cell signaling, development, and disease

Cytokine and Growth Factor Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 123-131

  Chiang, Cindy ^a   Ayyanathan, Kasirajan ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular signaling and development; EMT and cancer; SNAG repression domain; SNAG ZFP target genes; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE DEACETYLASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GFI 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SNAIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; EPIGENETICS; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; DISEASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84875244569     PISSN: 13596101     EISSN: 18790305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cytogfr.2012.09.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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