Identification, expression, and regulation of the transcriptional factor polyomavirus enhancer activator 3, and its putative role in regulating the expression of gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase mRNA-IV in the rat epididymis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 186-193

  Lan, Zi Jian ^a   Palladino, Michael A ^a   Rudolph, Daniel B ^a   Labus, Jacquelyn C ^a   Hinton, Barry T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; EPIDIDYMIS; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GLUTATHIONE METABOLISM; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYOMA VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA PROBES; EPIDIDYMIS; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; POLYOMAVIRUS;

EID: 0030993151     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.1.186     Document Type: Article

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