Differential recruitment of coregulators to the RORA promoter adds another layer of complexity to gene (dys) regulation by sex hormones in autism

Molecular Autism

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sarachana, Tewarit ^a,b   Hu, Valerie W ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Autism; Coactivator; Coregulator; Corepressor; Nuclear receptor; RORA; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FIREFLY LUCIFERASE; NCOA5 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; RETINOID RELATED ORPHAN RECEPTOR ALPHA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SUMO 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOBLAST; MALE; NEUROBLASTOMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84885349393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-4-39     Document Type: Article

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