Medaka (Oryzias latipes) FTZ-F1 potentially regulates the transcription of P-450 aromatase in ovarian follicles: cDNA cloning and functional characterization

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 221-228

  Watanabe, Masatada ^a,b   Tanaka, Minoru ^b   Kobayashi, Daisuke ^b   Yoshiura, Yasutoshi ^b   Oba, Yuichi ^b   Nagahama, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^b National Institute for Basic Biology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome P 450 aromatase; Fish ovarian follicles; FTZ F1 like protein; Medaka; Oryzias latipes; Promoter; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME P450; PROTEIN FTZ F1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TELEOST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOGENESIS; ORYZIAS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033602405     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-7207(99)00006-4     Document Type: Article

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