| Literature DB >> 10375033 |
M Watanabe1, M Tanaka, D Kobayashi, Y Yoshiura, Y Oba, Y Nagahama.
Abstract
Our previous findings suggest the activity of cytochrome P-450 aromatase (P-450arom), the enzyme which converts testosterone to estradiol-17beta, in the ovarian follicle of medaka (Oryzias latipes) is regulated at the transcriptional level. In this study, we cloned a cDNA encoding a FTZ-F1-like protein (mdFtz-F1) from ovarian follicles of medaka. In vitro translated mdFTZ-F1, and nuclear extract from medaka ovarian follicles, formed complexes with oligonucleotide probes containing putative orphan nuclear receptor binding motifs, which are present in the promoter region of the medaka P-450arom gene. The expression pattern of mdFtz-F1 transcripts during oogenesis coincides with that of P-450arom transcripts. Transfection assays further suggest a potential transcriptional regulatory activity of mdFTZ-F1 upon the medaka P-450arom promoter. Taken together, these results suggest a potential role of mdFTZ-F1 in the transcriptional regulation of P-450arom in the ovarian follicle of medaka.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID： 10375033 DOI： 10.1016/s0303-7207(99)00006-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mol Cell Endocrinol ISSN： 0303-7207 Impact factor: 4.102