Expression cloning of a rat testicular transcript abundant in germ cells, which contains two leucine zipper motifs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1223-1232

  Turner, Katie J ^a,c   Sharpe, Richard M ^a   Gaughan, Joseph ^a   Millar, Michael R ^a   Foster, Paul M D ^b   Saunders, Philippa T K ^a  

^a MRC Reproductive Biology Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b CIIT CENTERS FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE LIBRARY; GERM CELLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0030775799     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod57.5.1223     Document Type: Article

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