Taf7l cooperates with Trf2 to regulate spermiogenesis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 42, 2013, Pages 16886-16891

  Zhou, Haiying ^a   Grubisic, Ivan ^a   Zheng, Ke ^b,c   He, Ying ^a   Wang, P Jeremy ^b   Kaplan, Tommy ^d   Tjian, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Contraceptive medicine; Gene regulation; Reproduction; RNA seq

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTOR 71; TATA BINDING PROTEIN RELATED FACTOR; TATA BINDING PROTEIN RELATED FACTOR 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACKCROSSING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; WILD TYPE;

CONTRACEPTIVE MEDICINE; GENE REGULATION; REPRODUCTION; RNA-SEQ;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; STEM CELLS; TATA-BINDING PROTEIN ASSOCIATED FACTORS; TELOMERIC REPEAT BINDING PROTEIN 2; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84885692672     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317034110     Document Type: Article

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