Homeodomain proteins: an update

Chromosoma

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 497-521

  Bürglin, Thomas R ^a,b   Affolter, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DNA binding; EH1 (Octapeptide TN) motif; Homeobox; Homeodomain; Hox; PAIRED (PRD) domain

Indexed keywords

COREPRESSOR PROTEIN; CYTIDINE PHOSPHATE; DNA; EH1 PROTEIN; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 1ALPHA; HEXAPEPTIDE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LIM PROTEIN; METHIONINE; OCTAPEPTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERF; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR T BET; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZFHX3 PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOMEOBOX; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84944534269     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: 14320886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-015-0543-8     Document Type: Review

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