The aryl hydrocarbon receptor and glucocorticoid receptor interact to activate human metallothionein 2A

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 273, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-99

  Sato, Shoko ^a   Shirakawa, Hitoshi ^a   Tomita, Shuhei ^b   Tohkin, Masahiro ^c   Gonzalez, Frank J ^d   Komai, Michio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Pathophysiological and Therapeutic Science   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Methylcholanthrene; Aryl hydrocarbon receptor; Dexamethasone; Glucocorticoid receptor; Metallothionein; Transcription

Indexed keywords

3 METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; METALLOTHIONEIN II;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

3-MC; 3-METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; AHR; ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX/PER-ARNT-SIM; BHLH/PAS; CHIP; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DEX; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RESPONSE ELEMENT; GR; GRE; METALLOTHIONEIN; METALLOTHIONEIN 2A; MT; MT2A; TRANSCRIPTION; XENOBIOTIC RESPONSE ELEMENT; XRE;

ANIMALS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COS CELLS; DEXAMETHASONE; HEP G2 CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; METALLOTHIONEIN; METHYLCHOLANTHRENE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; RECEPTORS, ARYL HYDROCARBON; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84884726266     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: 10960333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.taap.2013.08.017     Document Type: Article

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