Presence of distinct cis-acting elements on gonadotropin gene promoters in diverse species dictates the selective recruitment of different transcription factors by steroidogenic factor-1

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-40

  Le Drean Y ^a   Liu, D ^a   Xiong, F ^a   Hew, C L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STRAIN COS1; DNA BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RAT; SALMON; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG SYNERGISM; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GONADOTROPINS; HELA CELLS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031434358     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(97)00184-6     Document Type: Article

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