Acrosome biogenesis in the hamster: Ultrastructurally distinct matrix regions are assembled from a common precursor polypeptide

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 361-370

  Olson, Gary E ^a   Winfrey, Virginia P ^a   NagDas, Subir K ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROLASE;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ISOLATION; EPIDIDYMIS; HAMSTER; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACROSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CRICETINAE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE MAPPING; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031931839     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod58.2.361     Document Type: Article

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