Alternative splicing of the nuclear progestin receptor in a perciform teleost generates novel mechanisms of dominant-negative transcriptional regulation

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 182, Issue , 2013, Pages 24-40

  Zapater, Cinta ^a   Chauvigné, François ^a   Fernández Gómez, Beatriz ^a   Finn, Roderick Nigel ^b,c   Cerdà, Joan ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Dominant negative inhibition; Estrogen; FSH; Isoform; Nuclear progestin receptor; Ovary; Teleost

Indexed keywords

17,20BETA DIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; 17ALPHA,20BETA,21 TRIHYDROXYPREGN 4 EN 3 ONE; ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN; ISOPROTEIN; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOPTERYGUS; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; FISH; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVARY FOLLICLE; PGR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SARCOPTERYGUS; SPARUS AURATA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VITELLOGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84871510472     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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