A placenta-specific enhancer of the human syncytin gene

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 500-509

  Cheng, You Hong ^a   Handwerger, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gene regulation; Placenta; Syncytiotrophoblast; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

BETA GLOBIN; CELL EXTRACT; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SYNCYTIN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUSION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTROPHOBLAST; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER REGION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; HEPATOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN SYNCYTIN GENE; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CELL; LIVER CELL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SIMIAN VIRUS 40; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SYNCYTIUM; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TROPHOBLAST;

CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); FEMALE; GATA2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PREGNANCY-SPECIFIC BETA 1-GLYCOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TROPHOBLASTS;

EID: 23844516094     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.105.039941     Document Type: Article

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