Translation of a unique transcript for protein isoaspartyl methyltransferase in haploid spermatids: Implications for protein storage and repair

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-144

  Chavous, David A ^a   Hake, Laura E ^a   Lynch, Raymond J ^a   O'Connor, Clare M ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Methylation; Polysomes; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ISOASPARTYL METHYLTRANSFERASE; MESSENGER RNA; METHYLTRANSFERASE; POLYADENYLATED RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; HAPLOIDY; MALE; MICE; POLYRIBOSOMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN D-ASPARTATE-L-ISOASPARTATE METHYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN METHYLTRANSFERASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0034065212     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(200006)56:2<139::AID-MRD3>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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