Temporal and spatial control of the Sycp1 gene transcription in the mouse meiosis: Regulatory elements active in the male are not sufficient for expression in the female gonad

Mechanisms of Development

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-39

  Sage, Julien ^a   Martin, Luc ^a   Meuwissen, Ralph ^b   Heyting, Christa ^b   Cuzin, François ^a   Rassoulzadegan, Minoo ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Enhancer; Oogenesis; Ovary; Pachytene spermatocyte; Promoter; Spermatogenesis; Synaptonemal complex; Testis; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS; TIME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIVER; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RATS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032928228     PISSN: 09254773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-4773(98)00191-9     Document Type: Article

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