The testicular receptor proteins are members of the
nuclear receptor
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family of
intracellular
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transcription factor
In molecular biology, a transcription factor (TF) (or sequence-specific DNA-binding factor) is a protein that controls the rate of transcription of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA, by binding to a specific DNA sequence. The fu ...
s.
There are two forms of the receptor,
TR2 and
TR4, each encode by a separate gene ( and respectively).
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Intracellular receptors
Transcription factors
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