Mammalian male and female germ cells express a germ cell-specific Y-box protein, MSY2

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1266-1274

  Gu, Wei ^a,e   Tekur, Seshadri ^a   Reinbold, Rolland ^b   Eppig, John J ^c   Choi, Young Chul ^a   Zheng, Jenny Z ^a   Murray, Mary T ^b   Hecht, Norman B ^a,d  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; XENOPUS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GERM CELLS; GOLDFISH; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031794511     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod59.5.1266     Document Type: Article

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