Switching on sex: Transcriptional regulation of the testis-determining gene Sry

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 141, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2195-2205

  Larney, Christian ^a   Bailey, Timothy L ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disorders of sex development; Sex determination; Sry; Testis development; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

INSULIN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1; WT1 PROTEIN;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; COMPREHENSION; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA METHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PERICENTRIC CHROMOSOME INVERSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SRY GENE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; SEX DETERMINATION; SRY; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL LINEAGE; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; OVARY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WT1 PROTEINS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84901433428     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.107052     Document Type: Review

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