The rat pituitary promoter of the neuronal nitric oxide synthase gene contains an Sp1-, LIM homeodomain-dependent enhancer and a distinct bipartite gonadotropin-releasing hormone-responsive region

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 3995-4007

  Bachir, Lydia K ^a   Garrel, Ghislaine ^a   Lozach, Anne ^a   Laverrière, Jean Noël ^a   Counis, Raymond ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GONADORELIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LIM PROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; PREGNANCY SPECIFIC BETA1 GLYCOPROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT MODULATOR; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LHX1 PROTEIN, RAT; NEURONAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NOS1 PROTEIN, RAT; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HYPOPHYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE 1 GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CHO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT MODULATOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0042421769     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2002-0183     Document Type: Article

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