Sry and Sox9: Mammalian testis-determining genes

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 6-7, 1999, Pages 839-856

  Koopman, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mammalian; Review; Sex determination; Sox genes; Sox9; Sry; Testis

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMATIN; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, WILMS TUMOR; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; WT1 PROTEINS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0033011523     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013200     Document Type: Review

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