Synergistic regulation of human oxytocin receptor promoter by CCAAT/: Enhancer-binding protein and RELA

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1083-1088

  Khanjani, Shirin ^a   Terzidou, Vasso ^a   Lee, Yun S ^a   Thornton, Steve ^b   Johnson, Mark R ^c   Bennett, Phillip R ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY PENINSULA SCHOOLS OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United Kingdom)

^c CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CEBPB; Cytokines; Gene regulation; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor (OXTR); Parturition; Preterm labor; RELA

Indexed keywords

CCAAT ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; DNA; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ARTICLE; BASIC LEUCINE ZIPPER MOTIF; BINDING KINETICS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UTERUS FUNCTION;

CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MYOMETRIUM; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA; UTERUS;

EID: 81055148195     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.092304     Document Type: Article

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