TCP-11, the product of a mouse t-complex gene, plays a role in stimulation of capacitation and inhibition of the spontaneous acrosome reaction

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 375-382

  Fraser, Lynn R ^a   Hosseini, Ramine ^a   Hanyalogou, Aylin ^a   Talmor, Alon ^a   Dudley, R Keith ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Adenylate cyclase; Capacitation; Fertilization promoting peptide; T complex

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030865690     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199711)48:3<375::AID-MRD11>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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