StAR enhances transcription of genes encoding the mitochondrial proteases involved in its own degradation

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 208-224

  Bahat, Assaf ^a   Perlberg, Shira ^a   Melamed Book, Naomi ^a   Lauria, Ines ^b   Langer, Thomas ^b   Orly, Joseph ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFG3L2 PROTEIN; ENDOPEPTIDASE LA; GONADOTROPIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PARAPLEGIN; SPG7 PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; A-CREB PROTEIN; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DEPENDENT PROTEINASE; AFG3L2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SPG7 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MEMBRANE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OVARY CELL; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL; RAT; STIMULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CHLOROCEBUS AETHIOPS; COS 1 CELL LINE; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEK293 CELL LINE; HELA CELL LINE; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MITOCHONDRIA; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEASE LA; PROTEOLYSIS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84892500395     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2013-1275     Document Type: Article

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