cDNA cloning and characterization of a human sperm antigen (SPAG6) with homology to the product of the Chlamydomonas PF16 locus

Genomics

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 272-280

  Neilson, Lorna I ^a   Schneider, Patrick A ^a   Van Deerlin, Peter G ^b   Kiriakidou, Marianthi ^b   Driscoll, Deborah A ^b   Pellegrini, Maria C ^c   Millinder, Shawn ^a   Yamamoto, Karen K ^a   French, Cynthia K ^a   Strauss III, Jerome F ^b  

^a Reprogen Inc   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPERM ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AXONEME; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERM;

ALGAE; ARMADILLO; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0033568359     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/geno.1999.5914     Document Type: Article

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