Specific GATA-binding elements in the GnRH promoter are required for gene expression pulse activity: Role of GATA-4 and GATA-5 in this intermittent process

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-16

  Leclerc, Gilles M ^a   Bose, Sudeep K ^a   Boockfor, Fredric R ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular pulsatility; Fluorescent EMSA; GATA 5; GATA 6; GT1 7 cells, microinjection; Luciferase reporter gene; Single cell imaging

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; LUCIFERASE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PULSATILE FLOW; RAT; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SERODIAGNOSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA5 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RATS;

EID: 47549106165     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000115952     Document Type: Article

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