GATA-6 is expressed in the human adrenal and regulates transcription of genes required for adrenal androgen biosynthesis

Endocrinology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 4285-4288

  Jimenez, Patricia ^a   Saner, Karla ^a   Mayhew, Bobbie ^a   Rainey, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHOLESTEROL; DNA; ISOENZYME; ISOPROTEIN; LUCIFERASE; PRASTERONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; SULFOTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ADRENAL CELL; ADRENAL GLAND; ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; EMBRYO; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANDROGENS; CELL LINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG SYNERGISM; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0141673545     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-0472     Document Type: Article

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