[Genome-wide analysis for transcriptional regulation of chondrogenesis-related genes].

ABSTRACT

Transcriptional factor Sox9 plays a central role in development of chondrogenesis with stage specificity and in tissue specificity. Sox9 with a number of transcriptional cofactors is a critical regulator in genes such as COL2, chondorocyte specific gene. We report here our new large scale approaches 1) Whole mount in situ hybridization (WISH), 2) High through-put human cDNA transfection assay. These genome-wide approaches have a possibility of discovery for new transcription factors in chondrogenesis.