Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Pangas SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1472434 | biostudies-literature | 2006 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pangas Stephanie A SA Choi Youngsok Y Ballow Daniel J DJ Zhao Yangu Y Westphal Heiner H Matzuk Martin M MM Rajkovic Aleksandar A
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060511 21
Mammalian oogenesis requires oocyte-specific transcriptional regulators. The full complement of oocyte-specific transcription factors is unknown. Here, we describe the finding that Sohlh1, a spermatogenesis and oogenesis basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor in females, is preferentially expressed in oocytes and required for oogenesis. Sohlh1 disruption perturbs follicular formation in part by causing down-regulation of two genes that are known to disrupt folliculogenesis: newborn ovary ho ...[more]