Peripheral benzodiazepine receptor/translocator protein global knock-out mice are viable with no effects on steroid hormone biosynthesis

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 40, 2014, Pages 27444-27454

  Tu, Lan N ^a   Morohaku, Kanako ^a   Manna, Pulak R ^b   Pelton, Susanne H ^a   Butler, W Ronald ^a   Stocco, Douglas M ^b   Selvaraj, Vimal ^a  

^a Plant Breeding and Genetics Section in the School of Integrative Plant Science   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS; MITOCHONDRIA; PROTEINS;

BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES; INNER MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANES; MORPHOLOGICAL ALTERATION; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHENOTYPIC ABNORMALITIES; RATE-LIMITING STEPS;

STEROID HORMONES;

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; CARRIER PROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STEROID HORMONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BZRP PROTEIN, MOUSE; SEX HORMONE;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP11A1 GENE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HSD3B1 GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STAR GENE; STEROIDOGENESIS; SURVIVAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; GENETICS; LEYDIG CELL; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, GABA;

EID: 84907293074     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M114.578286     Document Type: Article

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