Sry is a transcriptional activator

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 1182-1192

  Dubin, Robert A ^a   Ostrer, Harry ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PLASMID DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHO CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, REPORTER; GENES, SYNTHETIC; HAMSTERS; HUMAN; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0027930743     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: 19449917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/mend.8.9.7838151     Document Type: Article

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