Spag4, a novel sperm protein, binds outer dense-fiber protein Odf1 and localizes to microtubules of manchette and axoneme

Developmental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 109-123

  Shao, Xueping ^a   Tarnasky, Heide A ^a   Lee, Jonathan P ^a   Oko, Richard ^b   Van Der Hoorn, Frans A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033168490     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9297     Document Type: Article

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