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Plasmid expression vectors carrying either the entire engrailed coding region or a subfragment including the homoeo box, produce protein fusions having sequence-specific DNA binding activity.
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Desplan, C., Theis, J. & O'Farrell, P. The Drosophila developmental gene, engrailed, encodes a sequence-specific DNA binding activity. Nature 318, 630–635 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/318630a0
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