Novel actin-like proteins T-ACTIN 1 and T-ACTIN 2 are differentially expressed in the cytoplasm and nucleus of mouse haploid germ cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 475-482

  Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^a   Iguchi, Naoko ^a   De Carvalho, Carlos Egydio ^a   Tadokoro, Yuko ^a   Yomogida, Kentaro ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sperm; Sperm motility and transport; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; MESSENGER RNA; T ACTIN 1; T ACTIN 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA LIBRARY; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TESTIS;

ACTINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GERM CELLS; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0037962074     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.015867     Document Type: Article

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