Identification of GASZ, an evolutionarily conserved gene expressed exclusively in germ cells and encoding a protein with four ankyrin repeats, a sterile-α motif, and a basic leucine zipper

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1168-1184

  Yan, Wei ^a   Rajkovic, Aleksandar ^b   Viveiros, Maria M ^c   Burns, Kathleen H ^d   Eppig, John J ^c   Matzuk, Martin M ^a,b  

^a Departments of Pathology   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular and Human Genetics ^*  (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYRIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN GASZ; TRANSMEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE REGULATOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ASZ1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; CARRIER PROTEIN; GASZ PROTEIN, MOUSE; GASZ PROTEIN, RAT; PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 7; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; EMBRYO; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INFERTILITY; MALE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OOCYTE MATURATION; ORTHOLOGY; OVARY; PACHYTENE; PHYLOGENY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; TESTIS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GONAD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RAT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANKYRINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EMBRYO; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GERM CELLS; GONADS; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; HUMANS;

ANIMALIA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PAPIO HAMADRYAS;

EID: 0035992199     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.16.6.1168     Document Type: Article

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