Tissue-restricted transcription from a conserved intragenic CpG island in the Klf1 gene in mice

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Southwood, Cherie M ^a   Lipovich, Leonard ^a   Gow, Alexander ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CGI; Cldn11; EKLF; Germ cells; Somatic cells; Testis

Indexed keywords

KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; EXON; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

MUS;

EID: 84869451032     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.099879     Document Type: Article

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