The cAMP signaling system regulates LHβ gene expression: Roles of early growth response protein-1, SP1 and steroidogenic factor-1

Journal of Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 291-306

  Horton, C D ^a   Halvorson, Lisa M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATOR; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; FORSKOLIN; GONADOTROPIN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY DNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FORSKOLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; MICE; PITUITARY GLAND; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 1542270971     PISSN: 09525041     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1677/jme.0.0320291     Document Type: Article

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