A binding site for steroidogenic factor-1 is part of a complex enhancer that mediates expression of the murine gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor gene

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 160-168

  Duval, Dawn L ^a   Nelson, Scott E ^a   Clay, Colin M ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; PALINDROMIC DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CELL CULTURE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR GENE; RODENT; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MICE; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, LHRH; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031021078     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod56.1.160     Document Type: Article

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