Maintenance of spermatogenesis requires TAF4b, a gonad-specific subunit of TFIID

Genes and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 794-803

  Falender, Allison E ^a   Freiman, Richard N ^b   Geles, Kenneth G ^c   Lo, Kirk C ^a,d   Hwang, KeumSil ^e   Lamb, Dolores J ^a   Morris, Patricia L ^e   Tjian, Robert ^c   Richards, JoAnne S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

c Ret; Germ cell; Spermatogonial stem cell; Stra8; Taf4b

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; PROTEIN PLZF; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN STRA8; PROTEIN TAF4B; PROTEIN TFIID; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID;

EID: 17044431091     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1290105     Document Type: Article

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