Intracellular and intercellular transport of many germ cell mRNAs is mediated by the DNA- and RNA-binding protein, testis-brain-RNA-binding protein (TB-RBP)

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2000, Pages 252-253

  Hecht, Norman B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Meiosis; MRNA transport; Post meiotic gene expression; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MEIOSIS; METAPHASE; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RNA TRANSPORT; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 0034019629     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2795(200006)56:2+<252::aid-mrd8>3.0.co;2-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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