Differential protein-DNA binding analysis identifies a novel enhancer element, US-1, involved in the upregulation of the oxytocin receptor gene in human myometrium at term

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 137-149

  Kimura, Tadashi ^a,b   Mizumoto, Yoshifumi ^b   Ivell, Richard ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Batch purification; Differential EMSA; Enhancer; Oxytocin receptor; Term myometrium

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOMETRIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; THYMIDINE KINASE; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0033602124     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(98)00225-1     Document Type: Article

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