The testicular antiviral defense system: Localization, expression, and regulation of 2'5' oligoadenylate synthetase, double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase, and Mx proteins in the rat seminiferous tubule

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 865-873

  Dejucq, Nathalie ^a   Chousterman, Suzanne ^b   Jégou, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b HÔPITAL SAINT ANTOINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE PHOSPHATE; ALPHA INTERFERON; CELL PROTEIN; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE; SYNTHETASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SENDAI VIRUS; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; VIRUS RESISTANCE;

2',5'-OLIGOADENYLATE SYNTHETASE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; EIF-2 KINASE; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SERTOLI CELLS;

ANIMALIA; SENDAI VIRUS;

EID: 0030715365     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.4.865     Document Type: Article

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