A novel family of serine/threonine kinases participating in spermiogenesis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 139, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1851-1859

  Kueng, Peter ^a   Nikolova, Zariana ^a   Djonov, Valentin ^b   Hemphill, Andrew ^c   Rohrbach, Valeria ^a   Boehlen, Dominik ^d   Zuercher, Gisela ^a   Andres, Anne Catherine ^a   Ziemiecki, Andrew ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Institute of Parasitology   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e Department of Clinical Research ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EPIDIDYMIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0031408380     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.139.7.1851     Document Type: Article

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