Three Functional Classes of Transcriptional Activation Domains
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JUSTIN BLAU,† HUA XIAO,† SUSAN MCCRACKEN, PETER O’HARE, JACK GREENBLATT, AND DAVID BENTLEY* Molecular Genetics of Differentiation Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London WC2A 3PX, and Marie Curie Research Institute, Oxted, Surrey RH8 0TL, United Kingdom, and Banting and Best Department of Medical Research and Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1L6, and Amgen Institute, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C1, Canada
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