Transcription factors ER71/ETV2 and SOX9 participate in a positive feedback loop in fetal and adult mouse testis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 23657-23666

  DiTacchio, Luciano ^a   Bowles, Josephine ^b   Shin, Sook ^c   Lim, Dae Sik ^d   Koopman, Peter ^b   Janknecht, Ralf ^c  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT MICE; DOWN-REGULATION; ETS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; IN-VIVO; KEY DETERMINANTS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; SERTOLI CELLS; TRANSCRIPT LEVEL; UP-REGULATION;

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; MAMMALS; TRANSCRIPTION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ER71; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; ER71 GENE; FETUS; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SOX9 GENE; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 84863611733     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.320101     Document Type: Article

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