The putative chaperone calmegin is required for sperm fertility

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6633, 1997, Pages 607-610

  Ikawa, Masahito ^a   Wada, Ikuo ^b   Kominami, Katsuya ^a   Watanabe, Daisuke ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^c   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a   Okabe, Masaru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE DISRUPTION; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALNEXIN; CHAPERONINS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENE TARGETING; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0031011488     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42484     Document Type: Article

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