First Author | Yeom YI | Year | 1991 |
Journal | Mech Dev | Volume | 35 |
Issue | 3 | Pages | 171-9 |
PubMed ID | 1768618 | Mgi Jnum | J:1911 |
Mgi Id | MGI:50435 | Doi | 10.1016/0925-4773(91)90016-y |
Citation | Yeom YI, et al. (1991) Structure, expression and chromosomal location of the Oct-4 gene. Mech Dev 35(3):171-9 |
abstractText | The map position of Oct-4 on mouse chromosome 17 is between Q and T regions in the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC), and it is physically located within 35 kb of a class I gene. Several Oct-4-related genes are present in the murine genome; one of them maps to chromosome 9. The genomic structure and sequence of Oct-4 determined in t-haplotypes reveals five exons, and shows no significant changes in the t12 mutant haplotype making it unlikely that Oct-4 and the t12 early embryonic lethal are the same gene. By in situ hybridization, detectable onset of zygotic Oct-4 expression does not occur until compaction begins at 8-cells, suggesting that there might be other regulatory factors responsible for initiating Oct-4 expression. |