Molecular cloning of a centrin homolog from Marsilea vestita and evidence for its translational control during spermiogenesis

Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-108

  Hart, Peter E ^a,b   Wolniak, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrin; Marsilea vestita; MTOC; Spermatozoid; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

CENTRIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTATHIONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, PLANT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS;

BRYOPHYTES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FILICOPHYTA; MARSILEA VESTITA; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0032840039     PISSN: 08298211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/bcb-77-2-101     Document Type: Article

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