Transcriptional and translational regulation of gene expression in haploid spermatids

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 199, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 471-487

  Steger, Klaus ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Nucleoproteins; Spermiogenesis; Transcriptional regulation; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTAMINE; PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CYTOPLASM; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHYLATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTAMINES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SPERMATIDS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032934529     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050245     Document Type: Review

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