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Drosophila Krüppel protein is a transcriptional repressor.
Nature - 5 Jul 1990
Licht J D, Grossel M J, Figge J, Hansen U M
Abstract excerpt
Krüppel (Kr), one of the zygotically active Drosophila segmentation genes, is expressed in a restricted domain during the blastoderm stage of embryogenesis and is involved in the control of development of the thoracic and abdominal segments of the fly. Kr encodes a polypeptide containing DNA-binding zinc-finger motifs, disruptions of which yield Kr mutants. We have assayed the transcriptional activities of...
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