Spermatid manchette: Plugging proteins to zero into the sperm tail

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 347-349

  Kierszenbaum, Abraham L ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; KERATIN; KERATIN ODF1; KERATIN ODF2; KERATIN SAK57; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN SPAG5; TUBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; AXONEME; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENOME; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; KERATINS; MALE; PROTEINS; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 0034962275     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1040     Document Type: Short Survey

References (10)

1. Identification and characterization of new cDNAs encoding outer dense fiber proteins of rat sperm
2. Sequence and developmental expression of a mRNA encoding a putative protein of rat sperm outer dense fibers
3. Formation of disulphide bonds in the nucleus and accessory structures of mammalian spermatozoa during maturation in the epididymis
4. Isolation of the rat spermatid manchette and its perinuclear ring
5. A protein associated with the manchette during rat spermiogenesis is encoded by a gene of the TBP-1-like subfamily with highly conserved ATPase and protease domains
6. Spag4, a novel sperm protein, binds outer dense fiber protein Odf1 and localizes to microtubules of the manchette and axoneme
7. Sak57, an acidic keratin initially present in the spermatid manchette before becoming a component of paraaxonemal structures of the developing tail
8. Sak57, an intermediate filament keratin present in intercellular bridges of rat primary spermatocytes
9. A new rat gene RT7 is specifically expressed during spermatogenesis
10. Motile properties of vimentin intermediate filament networks in living cells