Hox Proteins Act as Transcriptional Guarantors to Ensure Terminal Differentiation

Cell Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1343-1352

  Zheng, Chaogu ^a   Jin, Felix Qiaochu ^a   Chalfie, Martin ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEH 13 PROTEIN; EGL 5 PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOX PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PBX1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UNC 86; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CEH 13 GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EGL 5 GENE; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GFP GENE; HOX GENE; LIN 39 GENE; MAB 5 GENE; MEC 3 GENE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHP 3 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOUCH RECEPTOR NEURON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84946151315     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.10.044     Document Type: Article

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