Cloning and characterization of a novel sperm-associated isoantigen (E-3) with defensin- and lectin-like motifs expressed in rat epididymis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 290-301

  Rao, Jayasimha ^a,c   Herr, John C ^a   Reddi, P Prabhakara ^a   Wolkowicz, Michael J ^a   Bush, Leigh Ann ^a   Sherman, Nicholas E ^b   Black, Michael ^b   Flickinger, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Defensin; Epididymis; Immunology; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEFENSIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN E 3; HYPERIMMUNE GLOBULIN; LECTIN; SECRETORY PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA LIBRARY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN MOTIF; RAT; SILVER STAINING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DEFENSINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPIDIDYMAL SECRETORY PROTEINS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; ISOANTIGENS; LECTINS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; GALLUS GALLUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037230239     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.005983     Document Type: Article

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