A cell- and developmental stage-specific promoter drives the expression of a truncated c-kit protein during mouse spermatid elongation

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1291-1302

  Albanesi, Cristina ^a   Geremia, Raffaele ^a   Giorgio, Marco ^b   Dolci, Susanna ^a   Sette, Claudio ^a   Rossi, Pellegrino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

c kit; Cell specific promoter; Haploid specific transcription; Spermatogenesis; Transgenic mice; Tyrosine kinase independent function

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTRON; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REPORTER; HAPLOIDY; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

EID: 0030002951     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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