Luteinizing hormone (LH) regulates production of androstenedione and progesterone via control of histone acetylation of StAR and CYP17 promoters in ovarian theca cells

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 350, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Murayama, Chiaki ^a   Miyazaki, Hitoshi ^b   Miyamoto, Akio ^a   Shimizu, Takashi ^a  

^a OBIHIRO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androstenedione; GATA 6; LH; Progesterone; SF 1; Theca cell

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CYTOCHROME P450 17; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA; PROGESTERONE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 6;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CALF (BOVINE); CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; THECA CELL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACETYLATION; ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; DAX-1 ORPHAN NUCLEAR RECEPTOR; FEMALE; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GATA6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTONES; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROGESTERONE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; THECA CELLS;

EID: 84856060878     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: 18728057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2011.11.014     Document Type: Article

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