Nitric oxide regulates the phosphorylation of the threonine-glutamine-tyrosine motif in proteins of human spermatozoa during capacitation

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1291-1298

  Thundathil, Jacob ^a   de Lamirande, Eve ^a   Gagnon, Claude ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Kinases; Nitric oxide; Signal transduction; Sperm capacitation

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GLUTAMINE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; OXYGEN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P105; PROTEIN P80; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SUPEROXIDE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; THREONINE; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAMETE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

1-METHYL-3-ISOBUTYLXANTHINE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ARGININE; BUCLADESINE; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE DONORS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITROGEN OXIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA; SPERMINE; THREONINE; TYROSINE;

EID: 0037377892     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.008276     Document Type: Article

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