Self-interaction of the major 27-kilodalton outer dense fiber protein is in part mediated by a leucine zipper domain in the rat

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1343-1350

  Shao, Xueping ^a   Van Der Hoorn, Frans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SPERMATID;

EID: 0029909753     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod55.6.1343     Document Type: Article

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