Genomic organization of the mouse fertilin β gene that encodes an ADAM family protein active in sperm-egg fusion

Developmental Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 320-328

  Cho, Chunghee ^a,c   Turner, Laura ^d   Primakoff, Paul ^b   Myles, Diana G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^d BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAM; Disintegrin and metalloprotease; Fertilin; Fertilization; Gene structure; Sperm egg binding and fusion

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METALLOPROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; KARYOTYPE; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADAM PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE LIBRARY; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

ANIMALIA; GENETTA;

EID: 0030793567     PISSN: 0192253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6408(1997)20:4<320::AID-DVG3>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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