Identification of a promoter region generating Sry circular transcripts both in germ cells from male adult mice and in male mouse embryonal gonads

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1128-1135

  Dolci, Susanna ^a   Grimaldi, Paola ^a   Geremia, Raffaele ^a   Pesce, Maurizio ^a   Rossi, Pellegrino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; GONAD; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENES, REGULATOR; GERM CELLS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDE MAPPING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBONUCLEASES; RNA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030782210     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.1128     Document Type: Article

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