Silencing of Fshr occurs through a conserved, hypersensitive site in the first intron

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2112-2131

  Hermann, Brian P ^a   Heckert, Leslie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL TYPE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SERTOLI CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECEPTORS, FSH; SERTOLI CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

MYOIDA;

EID: 23744471545     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2004-0244     Document Type: Article

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