Identification of Ube2b as a novel target of androgen receptor in mouse sertoli cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Mou, Lisha ^a,b   Zhang, Qiaoxia ^b   Wang, Yadong ^a,c   Zhang, Qiang ^a,c   Sun, Liang ^b   Li, Cailing ^a   Huang, Weiren ^a   Yuan, Yongxian ^d   Duan, Yonggang ^a   Diao, Ruiying ^a   Jiang, Zhimao ^a   Ye, Jiongxian ^a   Cai, Zhiming ^b   Gui, Yaoting ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY SHENZHEN HOSPITAL   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

Author keywords

Androgen; Androgen receptor; Male infertility; Sertoli cells; Spermatogenesis; UBE2B

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CORN OIL; FLUTAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; TESTOSTERONE; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME; UBIQUITIN CONJUGATING ENZYME 2B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UBE2B PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; UBIQUITINATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBE2B;

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MALE INFERTILITY; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; UBE2B;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SERTOLI CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; UBIQUITIN-CONJUGATING ENZYMES; UBIQUITINATION; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84886888244     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.103648     Document Type: Article

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