Gonadal differentiation, sex determination and normal Sry expression in mice require direct interaction between transcription partners GATA4 and FOG2

Development

Volumn 129, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 4627-4634

  Tevosian, Sergei G ^a   Albrecht, Kenneth H ^a   Crispino, John D ^a   Fujiwara, Yuko ^a   Eicher, Eva M ^a   Orkin, Stuart H ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

FOG2; GATA4; Mouse; Sertoli cell; Sex reversal; Sry; Testis

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CHOLESTEROL MONOOXYGENASE (SIDE CHAIN CLEAVING); STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOG2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HOMOZYGOSITY; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHOLESTEROL SIDE-CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GONADS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; PROGESTERONE REDUCTASE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROID ISOMERASES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WT1 PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036796863     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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