Functional interactions of an upstream enhancer of the mouse glycoprotein hormone α-subunit gene with proximal promoter sequences

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 142, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 141-152

  Wood, William M ^a   Dowding, Janet M ^a   Sarapura, Virginia D ^a   McDermott, Michael T ^a   Gordon, David F ^a   Ridgway, E Chester ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Glycoprotein hormone subunit (mouse); LIM homeodomain proteins; Steroidogenic factor 1

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; THYROID CELL;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032566137     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00110-5     Document Type: Article

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