Kit/stem cell factor receptor-induced activation of phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase is essential for male fertility

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 157-162

  Blume Jensen, Peter ^a   Jiang, Guoqiang ^a   Hyman, Robert ^a   Lee, Kuo Fen ^a   O'Gorman, Stephen ^a   Hunter, Tony ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME BINDING; FEMALE; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE STERILITY; MOUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CODON; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXONS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INTRONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033981729     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/72814     Document Type: Article

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