Cyclic nucleotide-gated channels on the flagellum control Ca2+ entry into sperm

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 473-484

  Wiesner, Burkhard ^a   Weiner, Jocelyn ^b   Middendorff, Ralf ^c   Hagen, Volker ^a   Kaupp, U Benjamin ^b   Weyand, Ingo ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR MOLEKULARE PHARMAKOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caged compounds; CGMP; Chemotaxis; Fertilization; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC GMP;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; FERTILIZATION; FLAGELLUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MAMMAL; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHOTORECEPTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANILINE COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CATTLE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC GMP; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLUORESCENT DYES; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ION TRANSPORT; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPERM TAIL; TESTIS; XANTHENES;

EID: 0032572581     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.142.2.473     Document Type: Article

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