Complementary DNA cloning and characterization of rat spergen-2, a spermatogenic cell-specific gene 2 encoding a 56-kilodalton nuclear protein bearing ankyrin repeat motifs

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 421-429

  Iida, Hiroshi ^a   Urasoko, Aiko ^a   Doiguchi, Masamichi ^a   Mori, Takayuki ^a   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^b   Shibata, Yosaburo ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gametogenesis; Sperm; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANKYRIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DISPLAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERGEN 2 GENE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TECHNIQUE; TESTIS; UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANKYRINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RATS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UP-REGULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037623769     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.013987     Document Type: Article

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