Phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase (PEMT) gene expression is induced by estrogen in human and mouse primary hepatocytes

FASEB Journal

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2622-2632

  Resseguie, Mary ^a   Song, Jiannan ^a   Niculescu, Mihai D ^a   Da Costa, Kerry Ann ^a   Randall, Thomas A ^b   Zeisel, Steven H ^a,c  

^a University of North Carolina   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

17 estradiol; Bioinformatics; Choline; ERE; Evolutionarily conserved gene motifs

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESTROGEN RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLINE DEFICIENCY; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; PHOSPHATIDYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PREMENOPAUSE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 34547782307     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-8227com     Document Type: Article

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