cDNA cloning of bovine midkine and production of the recombinant protein, which affects in vitro maturation of bovine oocytes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-107

  Ikeda, Shuntaro ^a   Nishikimi, Akihiko ^a   Ichihara Tanaka, Keiko ^b   Muramatsu, Takashi ^b   Yamada, Masayasu ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental competence; IVM; Midkine

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEPARAN SULFATE; MIDKINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MATURATION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; POLYSACCHARIDE-LYASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPODOPTERA;

EID: 0033870899     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1098-2795(200009)57:1<99::AID-MRD13>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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