Sry-directed sex reversal in transgenic mice is robust with respect to enhanced DNA bending: Comparison of human and murine HMG boxes

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 7066-7081

  Phillips, Nelson B ^a   Nikolskaya, Tatiana ^a,c   Jancso Radek, Agnes ^a,d   Ittah, Varda ^b   Jiang, Fashun ^a,e   Singh, Rupinder ^a   Haas, Elisha ^b   Weiss, Michael A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c GeneGo bioinformatics software Inc   (United States)

^d ILLUMINA INC   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; GENES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

DNA-BENDING DOMAIN; SRY-DIRECTED SEX REVERSAL; TRANSGENIC MICE;

DNA;

DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA BINDING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA STRUCTURE; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 2642544069     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi049920a     Document Type: Article

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