Specific binding of nuclear proteins to a bifunctional promoter element upstream of the H1/AC box of the testis-specific histone H1t gene

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2267-2273

  Wolfe, Steven A ^a,b   Grimes, Sidney R ^a,b  

^a OVERTON BROOKS VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gene regulation; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE H1; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; DNA CROSS LINKING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; HISTONES; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0037836929     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.014084     Document Type: Article

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