Proteins with tandemly arranged repeats of a highly charged 16-amino- acid motif encoded by the Dhmst101 gene family are structural components of the outer sheath of the extremely elongated sperm tails of Drosophila hydei

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-99

  Neesen, Jürgen ^a   Heinlein, Uwe A O ^b   Glätzer, Karl Heinz ^b   Bünemann, Hans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drosophila; Highly charged 16 amino acid repeats; Sperm protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DROSOPHILA HYDEI; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TANDEM REPEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENES, INSECT; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SPERM TAIL; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032986927     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1999.00406.x     Document Type: Article

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