Similarities and differences of X and Y chromosome homologous genes, SRY and SOX3, in regulating the renin-angiotensin system promoters

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 177-186

  Araujo, Fabiano C ^a   Milsted, Amy ^b   Watanabe, Ingrid K M ^c   Del Puerto, Helen L ^a   Santos, Robson A S ^a   Lazar, Jozef ^d   Reis, Fernando M ^a   Prokop, Jeremy W ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Renin angiotensin system; Sex differences; Sox3; Sry

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSINOGEN; BETA SECRETASE 2; RENIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; LUCIFERASE; SRY PROTEIN, RAT; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BRAIN; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC SIMILARITY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LUCIFERASE ASSAY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONCOGENE RAS; OVERLAPPING GENE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SRY GENE; TATA BOX; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CHO CELL LINE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETULUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAMSTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

RATTUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHO CELLS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RENIN; RENIN-ANGIOTENSIN SYSTEM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84930984278     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00138.2014     Document Type: Article

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