Gonadotropin-releasing hormone activation of C-jun, but not early growth response factor-1, stimulates transcription of a luteinizing hormone β-subunit gene

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 3598-3605

  Melamed, Philippa ^a   Zhu, Yunhua ^a   Siew, Hoon Tan ^a   Xie, Min ^a   Koh, Mingshi ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; FISH; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RATS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; SALMON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 33745146565     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0022     Document Type: Article

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