Estrogen enhances gonadotropin-releasing hormone-stimulated transcription of the luteinizing hormone subunit promoters via altered expression of stimulatory and suppressive transcription factors

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 6083-6091

  Kowase, Takanori ^a,e   Walsh, Heidi E ^b   Darling, Douglas S ^c   Shupnik, Margaret A ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^e GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE ALPHA SUBUNIT; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ZFHX1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; E BOX ELEMENT; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; E-BOX ELEMENTS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESTROGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 36348989097     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0407     Document Type: Article

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