Retinoic Acid Activates Two Pathways Required for Meiosis in Mice

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Koubova, Jana ^a,b   Hu, Yueh Chiang ^a   Bhattacharyya, Tanmoy ^a   Soh, Y Q Shirleen ^a,b   Gill, Mark E ^a   Goodheart, Mary L ^a,c   Hogarth, Cathryn A ^d   Griswold, Michael D ^d   Page, David C ^a,b,c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; COHESIN; DAZL PROTEIN; DMC1 PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; REC8 PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID; STRA8 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DAZL PROTEIN, MOUSE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; REC8 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN; STRA8 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MITOSIS; OVARY; TESTIS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MITOSIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OVARY; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRETINOIN;

EID: 84926142664     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004541     Document Type: Article

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