Growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) forms an incoherent feed-forward loop modulating follicle-stimulating hormone β-subunit (fshjβ) gene expression

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 16164-16175

  Choi, Soon Gang ^a   Wang, Qian ^a   Jia, Jingjing ^a   Pincas, Hanna ^a   Turgeon, Judith L ^b   Sealfon, Stuart C ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; GENES;

CONCENTRATION-DEPENDENT; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; FREQUENCY-SENSITIVE; GENE TRANSCRIPTIONS; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION; PULSE FREQUENCIES; RECEPTOR-LIKE KINASE;

TRANSCRIPTION;

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GONADORELIN; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SMAD2 PROTEIN; SMAD3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL IMMORTALIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ASSAY; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE BETA SUBUNIT GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GONADOTROPIN SECRETING CELL; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9 GENE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPOPHYSIS CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL SIGNALING; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; ENDOCRINOLOGY; FOLLICLE-STIMULATING HORMONE Β-SUBUNIT; GENE REGULATION; GNRH PULSE FREQUENCY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; INCOHERENT FEED-FORWARD LOOP; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA PRIMERS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GROWTH DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 9; MALE; MICE; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84902143270     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.537696     Document Type: Article

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