Novel insights into the downstream pathways and targets controlled by transcription factors crem in the testis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Kosir, Rok ^a,e   Juvan, Peter ^a   Perse, Martina ^a   Budefeld, Tomaz ^a   Majdic, Gregor ^a,c   Fink, Martina ^b   Sassone Corsi, Paolo ^d   Rozman, Damjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Diagenomi Ltd   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 8; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT MODULATOR; FAS LIGAND; MELATONIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

17BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE GENE; 5ALPHA REDUCTASE GENE; A KINASE (PRKA) ANCHOR PROTEIN 4 GENE; ADENYLASE CYCLASE 10 GENE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR GENE; ANGIOTENSIN 1 CONVERTING ENZYME GENE; APOPTOSIS; AROMATASE GENE; ARTICLE; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR NUCLEAR TRANSLOCATOR LIKE GENE; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE IV GENE; CASEIN KINASE 1 DELTA GENE; CATION CHANNEL SPERM ASSOCIATED 1 GENE; CATION CHANNEL SPERM ASSOCIATED 3 GENE; CATION CHANNEL SPERM ASSOCIATED 4 GENE; CELL INTERACTION; CHOLESTEROL EFFLUX REGULATORY PROTEIN GENE; CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CREM GENE; CRYPTOCHROME 1 GENE; DNA MICROARRAY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HYDROXY DELTA5 STEROID DEHYDROGENASE GENE; IZUMO SPERM EGG FUSION 1 GENE; LANOSTEROL 14ALPHA DEMETHYLASE GENE; LIPE GENE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE CHORIGONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR GENE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXYSTEROL 7ALPHA HYDROXYLASE 2 GENE; PERIOD HOMOLOG 1 GENE; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE KINASE 2 GENE; POLIOVIRUS RECEPTOR RELATED 2 GENE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL SUBFAMILY U MEMBER 1 GENE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE SUBTILISIN KEXIN TYPE 4 GENE; PROTAMINE 1 GENE; PROTAMINE 2 GENE; PROTAMINE 3 GENE; RAR RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR GAMMA GENE; RETINOID X RECEPTOR ALPHA GENE; SCAVENGER RECEPTOR CLASS B MEMBER 1 GENE; SERTOLI CELL; SIDE CHAIN CLEAVAGE ENZYME GENE; SPERM GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; SPERM MATURATION 1 GENE; SPERM MITOCHONDRIA ASSOCIATED CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN GENE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SQUALENE EPOXIDASE GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN GENE; STEROL CARRIER PROTEIN 2 GENE; TEKTIN 5 GENE; TESTIS; TESTIS SPECIFIC SERINE KINASE 6 GENE; TRANSITION PROTEIN 1 GENE; TRANSITION PROTEIN 2 GENE; TRANSLOCATOR PROTEIN GENE; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

MUS;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT MODULATOR; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MELATONIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 84857466327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031798     Document Type: Article

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