Male-enhanced antigen-1 gene flanked by two overlapping genes is expressed in late spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1824-1831

  Ohinata, Yasuhide ^a,b   Sutou, Shizuyo ^a   Kondo, Masaaki ^c   Takahashi, Tomoko ^a   Mitsui, Youji ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Itoham Foods Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sperm; Sperm maturation; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; MALE ENHANCED ANTIGEN 1; PROTEIN; PROTEIN PEAS; PROTEIN PPP2R5D; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AUTOANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GOLGA3 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MALE ENHANCED ANTIGEN; MALE-ENHANCED ANTIGEN; MEA1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEA1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 17; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOPLASM; EXON; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON; ULTRASTRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; PISUM SATIVUM;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIGENS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYTOPLASM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

EID: 0036892551     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.101.002550     Document Type: Article

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