DMRT1 protects male gonadal cells from retinoid-dependent sexual transdifferentiation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 511-520

  Minkina, Anna ^a   Matson, Clinton K ^a,d   Lindeman, Robin E ^a   Ghyselinck, Norbert B ^b   Bardwell, Vivian J ^a,c   Zarkower, David ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; ESTROGEN; RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMRT1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FATE; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GERM CELL; GONAD; JUVENILE; MALE; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CELL PROTECTION; NUCLEAR REPROGRAMMING; SEX DETERMINATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OVARY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; RETINOIDS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SERTOLI CELLS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 84901984697     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: 18781551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2014.04.017     Document Type: Article

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