The proximal promoter governs germ cell-specific expression of the mouse glutathione transferase mgstm5 gene

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-388

  Dehari, Hironari ^a   Tchaikovskaya, Tatyana ^b   Rubashevsky, Eugeny ^b   Sellers, Rani ^b   Listowsky, Irving ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M5; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GLUTATHIONE S TRANSFERASE M5, MOUSE; GLUTATHIONE S-TRANSFERASE M5, MOUSE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; ANIMAL; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENE;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GERM CELLS; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENES;

EID: 65449139189     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20976     Document Type: Article

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