The 193-base pair Gsg2 (Haspin) promoter region regulates germ cell-specific expression bidirectionally and synchronously

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 407-414

  Tokuhiro, Keizo ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a   Yamada, Shuichi ^b   Hirose, Mika ^a   Ohta, Hiroshi ^c   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AKITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; GC rich; Gene regulation; Integrin; Intronless; Methylation; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTEGRIN; ALPHAE INTEGRIN; DNA; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HASPIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR FACTOR; PROTEIN AED; PROTEIN GSG2; PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AED GENE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DSRED GENE; EGFP GENE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; GERM CELL; GSG2 GENE; HAPLOIDY; INTRON; ITGAE GENE; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SPERM; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GC RICH SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; INTEGRIN ALPHA CHAINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SPERMATOZOA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 33847208199     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.055236     Document Type: Article

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