Transcriptional regulation of pituitary POMC is conserved at the vertebrate extremes despite great promoter sequence divergence

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2738-2749

  Bumaschny, Viviana F ^a   De Souza, Flávio S J ^a   Leal, Rodrigo A López ^c   Santangelo, Andrea M ^a   Baetscher, Manfred ^d   Levi, Diego H ^a   Low, Malcolm J ^e,f   Rubinstein, Marcelo ^a,b,c,e  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES EN INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA Y BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS CECS   (Chile)

^d HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HORMONAL REGULATION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN GENE; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TELEOST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FISHES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PHYLOGENY; PITUITARY GLAND; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; TELEOSTEI; TETRAODON; TETRAODON NIGROVIRIDIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 35648958713     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2006-0557     Document Type: Article

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