A single mouse gene encodes the mitochondrial transcription factor A and a testis-specific nuclear HMG-box protein

Nature Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 296-302

  Larsson, Nils Göran ^a   Garman, J David ^a   Oldfors, Anders ^b   Barsh, Gregory S ^c   Clayton, David A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; EMBRYO; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029957097     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng0796-296     Document Type: Article

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