Mouse germ cell-less as an essential component for nuclear integrity

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1304-1315

  Kimura, Tohru ^a   Ito, Chizuru ^b   Watanabe, Shoko ^a   Takahashi, Tohru ^c   Ikawa, Masahito ^a   Yomogida, Kentaro ^a   Fujita, Yukiko ^a   Ikeuchi, Megumi ^a   Asada, Noriko ^a   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^c   Okuyama, Akihiko ^c   Okabe, Masaru ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^b   Nakano, Toru ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTAMINE; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANOGASTER GERM CELL LESS GENE; MGCL 1 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; FIBROBLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIVER; MALE; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PANCREAS; PROTAMINES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HEXAPODA; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0037313046     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.4.1304-1315.2003     Document Type: Article

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