Structural and molecular characterization of dynein in a gall-midge insect having motile sperm with only the outer arm

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 303-317

  Lupetti, Pietro ^a   Mencarelli, Caterina ^a   Rosetto, Marco ^a   Heuser, John E ^b   Dallai, Romano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep etching; Gall midge spermatozoa; Insect flagellar axoneme; Insect sperm; Outer dynein arm; Quick freeze; Sperm motility

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CELL MOTILITY; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; FLAGELLUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INSECT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL SIZE; DIPTERA; DYNEIN ATPASE; FREEZE FRACTURING; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031955547     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)39:4<303::AID-CM5>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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