SOHLH1 and SOHLH2 control Kit expression during postnatal male germ cell development

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1455-1464

  Barrios, Florencia ^a   Filipponi, Doria ^b   Campolo, Federica ^a   Gori, Manuele ^a   Bramucci, Federica ^a   Pellegrini, Manuela ^a   Ottolenghi, Sergio ^c   Rossi, Pellegrino ^a   Jannini, Emmanuele A ^d   Dolci, Susanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Germ cells; Kit; Sohlh1; Sohlh2

Indexed keywords

E BOX PROTEIN; KIT PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; SOHLH1 PROTEIN; SOHLH2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GERM CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 84861207250     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.092593     Document Type: Article

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