The Homeobox Transcription Factor RHOX10 Drives Mouse Spermatogonial Stem Cell Establishment

Cell Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 149-164

  Song, Hye Won ^a   Bettegowda, Anilkumar ^a   Lake, Blue B ^a   Zhao, Adrienne H ^a   Skarbrevik, David ^a   Babajanian, Eric ^a   Sukhwani, Meena ^b   Shum, Eleen Y ^a   Phan, Mimi H ^a   Plank, Terra Dawn M ^a   Richardson, Marcy E ^a   Ramaiah, Madhuvanthi ^a   Sridhar, Vaishnavi ^a   de Rooij, Dirk G ^c   Orwig, Kyle E ^b   Zhang, Kun ^a   Wilkinson, Miles F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

germ cell; germ line stem cell; gonocytes; homeobox; prospermatogonia; Rhox; spermatogenesis; spermatogonia; spermatogonial stem cells; transcription factor

Indexed keywords

RHOX10 HOMEOBOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FKHR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; RHOX10 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ESTABLISHMENT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL REGENERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; GAMETOGENESIS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HOMEOBOX; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCEDURES CONCERNING CELLS; PROGENY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RHOX10 GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; UNDIFFERENTIATED SPERMATOGONIA; X CHROMOSOME; X LINKED HOMEOBOX GENE; ADULT STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

ADULT GERMLINE STEM CELLS; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, X-LINKED; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIA;

EID: 84989885463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.08.090     Document Type: Article

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