A gene-specific promoter in transgenic mice directs testis-specific demethylation prior to transcriptional activation in vivo

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 284-292

  Zhang, L Peter ^a,b   Stroud, James C ^a   Walter, Christi A ^b   Adrian, Gwendolyn S ^b   McCarrey, John R ^a,b  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; TRANSFERRIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CPG ISLAND; DEMETHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CPG ISLANDS; DEALKYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; HYBRID CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSGENES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0031927957     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.2.284     Document Type: Article

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