A comparison of the properties of Sox-3 with Sry and two related genes, Sox-1 and Sox-2

Development

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 509-520

  Collignon, Jérôme ^a,b   Sockanathan, Shanthini ^a   Hacker, Adam ^a   Cohen Tannoudji, Michel ^a,c   Norris, Dominic ^d,e   Rastan, Sohaila ^d,e   Stevanovic, Milena ^f   Goodfellow, Peter N ^f   Lovell Badge, Robin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^d MRC Clinical Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

HMG box; Sex determination; Sox genes; Sry; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; X CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HMGB PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030039291     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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