An ancient protein-DNA interaction underlying metazoan sex determination

Nature Structural and Molecular Biology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 442-451

  Murphy, Mark W ^a   Lee, John K ^a   Rojo, Sandra ^b   Gearhart, Micah D ^a   Kurahashi, Kayo ^a   Banerjee, Surajit ^c   Loeuille, Guy André ^d   Bashamboo, Anu ^b   McElreavey, Kenneth ^b   Zarkower, David ^a,e   Aihara, Hideki ^a,e   Bardwell, Vivian J ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d Centre Hospitalier de Dunkerque   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DMRT TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; DNA; EXONUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DMRT1 PROTEIN; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERSEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIPTERA; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEX;

METAZOA;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DIPTERA; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; EXODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84930405650     PISSN: 15459993     EISSN: 15459985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsmb.3032     Document Type: Article

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