Integration of CREB and bHLH transcriptional signaling pathways through direct heterodimerization of the proteins: Role in muscle and testis development

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1637-1652

  Muir, Tera ^a   Wilson Rawls, Jeanne ^b   Stevens, Jeffrey D ^a   Rawls, Alan ^b,c   Schweitzer, Ronen ^d   Kang, Chulhee ^a   Skinner, Michael K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ATF4; bHLH; cAMP signal transduction; CREB; Knockout; Muscle; Paraxis; Scleraxis; Sertoli cell; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; HETERODIMER; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MYOD PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DIMERIZATION; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; RATS; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 53049099346     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20902     Document Type: Article

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