Haploid spermatids exhibit translationally repressed mRNAs

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 203, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 323-334

  Steger, Klaus ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Male infertility; Nucleoproteins; RNA binding proteins; Spermiogenesis; Translational regulation

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYADENYLIC ACID; PROTAMINE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOIDY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0035000820     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290100176     Document Type: Review

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