Outer dense fibre proteins from human sperm tail: Molecular cloning and expression analyses of two cDNA transcripts encoding proteins of ~70 kDa

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 627-635

  Petersen, Christoph ^a   Füzesi, Laszlo ^a   Hoyer Fender, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Human ODF; In situ hybridization; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; SPERM TAIL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RATS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPERM TAIL; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032980522     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/5.7.627     Document Type: Article

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