Retinoic acid-stimulated ERK1/2 pathway regulates meiotic initiation in cultured fetal germ cells.

In murine fetal germ cells, retinoic acid (RA) is an extrinsic cue for meiotic initiation that stimulates transcriptional activation of the Stimulated by retinoic acid gene 8 (Stra8), which is required for entry of germ cells into meiotic prophase I. Canonically, the biological activities of RA are...

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Main Authors: Sung-Min Kim, Toshifumi Yokoyama, Dylan Ng, Ferhat Ulu, Yukiko Yamazaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224628