Mouse protamine genes are candidate targets for the novel orphan nuclear receptor, Germ Cell Nuclear Factor

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 396-405

  Hummelke, Geoffrey C ^a   Meistrich, Marvin L ^b   Cooney, Austin J ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Differentiation; Orphan receptors; Response elements; Spermatogenesis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTAMINES; RABBITS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0031750448     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199808)50:4<396::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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