Sperizin is a murine RING zinc-finger protein specifically expressed in haploid germ cells

Genomics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 94-101

  Fujii, Takayuki ^a   Tamura, Kazutoshi ^a   Copeland, Neal G ^b   Gilbert, Debra J ^b   Jenkins, Nancy A ^b   Yomogida, Kentaro ^c   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^c   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^c   Nojima, Hiroshi ^a   Abiko, Yoshimitsu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 0033119544     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1998.5738     Document Type: Article

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