Molecular Cloning of Odf3 Encoding a Novel Coiled-Coil Protein of Sperm Tail Outer Dense Fibers

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 102-112

  Petersen, Christoph ^a   Aumüller, Gerhard ^b   Bahrami, Masoud ^a   Hoyer Fender, Sigrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coiled coil proteins; Cytoskeletal proteins; Outer dense fibers; Sperm tail; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; ODF1 PROTEIN, RAT; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAT; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEINS; RATS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERM TAIL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036362838     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.1136     Document Type: Article

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