Transforming growth factor-β1 signaling represses testicular steroidogenesis through cross-talk with orphan nuclear receptor Nur77

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Park, Eunsook ^a   Song, Chin Hee ^a   Park, Jae Il ^a   Ahn, Ryun Sup ^b   Choi, Hueng Sik ^a   Ko, CheMyong ^c   Lee, Keesook ^a  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b CHA Medical University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CYCLIC AMP; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77; SMAD3 PROTEIN; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE; STEROIDOGENIC ACUTE REGULATORY PROTEIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR 2; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEYDIG CELL; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEROIDOGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TESTIS;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LEYDIG CELLS; MALE; MICE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 1; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMAD3 PROTEIN; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 84929051820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104812     Document Type: Article

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