Physiological functions of proteasomes in ascidian fertilization and embryonic cell cycle

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 389, Issue , 1996, Pages 229-232

  Sawada, Hitoshi ^a   Kawahara, Hiroyuki ^a   Saitoh, Yoshiko ^a   Yokosawa, Hideyoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCIDIA; ASCIDIACEA;

ACROSIN; PROTEASOME; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX;

ASCIDIACEA; CELL CYCLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME INHIBITION; FERTILIZATION; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MITOSIS; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SPERM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; UROCHORDATA;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; UROCHORDATA;

EID: 0030345832     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-0335-0_28     Document Type: Article

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