Characterization of a human glycoprotein with a potential role in sperm-egg fusion: cDNA cloning, immunohistochemical localization, and chromosomal assignment of the gene (AEGL1)

Genomics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 367-374

  Hayashi, Maseru ^a   Fujimoto, Seiichiro ^a   Takano, Hiroko ^a   Ushiki, Tatsuo ^a   Abe, Kazuhiro ^a   Ishikura, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshida, Michihiro C ^b   Kirchhoff, Christiane ^c   Ishibashi, Teruo ^a   Kasahara, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RODENTIA;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ASSIGNMENT; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SYNTENY;

ACROSOME; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; TESTIS;

EID: 0029983024     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1996.0131     Document Type: Article

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