Breed-dependent transcriptional regulation of 5′-untranslated GR (NR3C1) exon 1 mRNA variants in the liver of newborn piglets

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Zou, Huafeng ^a   Li, Runsheng ^a   Jia, Yimin ^a   Yang, Xiaojing ^a   Ni, Yingdong ^a   Cong, Rihua ^a   Soloway, Paul D ^b   Zhao, Ruqian ^a  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HISTONE H3; HYDROCORTISONE; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR GENE; HISTONE ACETYLATION; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR GENE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BODY WEIGHT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CPG ISLANDS; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EXONS; HYDROCORTISONE; LIVER; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SIZE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SP1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SUS SCROFA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PIERIS BRASSICAE; SUIDAE; SUS;

EID: 84863609998     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040432     Document Type: Article

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