RFX2 is a potential transcriptional regulatory factor for histone H1t and other genes expressed during the meiotic phase of spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1551-1559

  Horvath, Gary C ^a   Kistler, W Stephen ^a   Kistler, Malathi K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Meiosis; Spermatogenesis; Testis; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

HISTONE H1; HISTONE H1T; LAMIN C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HISTONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMININ; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PACHYTENE STAGE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 6344249123     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.104.032268     Document Type: Article

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