Two regions within the proximal steroidogenic factor 1 promoter drive somatic cell-specific activity in developing gonads of the female mouse

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-434

  Gao, Liying ^a   Kim, Youngha ^c   Kim, Bongki ^a,c,g   Lofgren, Stacey M ^d   Schultz Norton, Jennifer R ^e   Nardulli, Ann M ^b   Heckert, Leslie L ^f   Jorgensen, Joan S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Institute of Chicago   (United States)

^e MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

AP2; Gonad; Ovary; Promoter; Sf1; Steroidogenic factor 1; Transfection

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEIN TCFAP2; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; FEMALE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPORATION; FEMALE; GONADS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; OVARY; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1;

EID: 79952147064     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.084590     Document Type: Article

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