Regulation of the human growth hormone gene family: Possible role for Pit-1 in early stages of pituitary-specific expression and repression

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 83, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 145-153

  Cattini, Peter A ^a   Yang, Xiaoyang ^a   Jin, Yan ^a   Detillieux, Karen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Growth hormone; Histones; Locus central region; Pituitary specific factor Pit 1; Tissue specific gene expression

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 16; GROWTH HORMONE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR 3; HISTONE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; NUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACETYLATION; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 17; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENHANCER REGION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; METHYLATION; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REGULATOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PITUITARY GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1;

EID: 33750067980     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095522     Document Type: Conference Paper

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