SPEER - A new family of testis-specific genes from the mouse

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2044-2054

  Spiess, Andrej Nikolai ^a   Walther, Norbert ^a   Müller, Nadine ^a   Balvers, Marga ^a   Hansis, Christoph ^b   Ivell, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Gene regulation; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTING ANTIBODY; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; SPERM ASSOCIATED GLUTAMATE RICH PROTEIN 1; SPERM ASSOCIATED GLUTAMATE RICH PROTEIN 2; SPERM ASSOCIATED GLUTAMATE RICH PROTEIN 4D; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HAPLOIDY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPEER 1 GENE; SPEER 2 GENE; SPEER 4D GENE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA PRIMERS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0038513548     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.102.011593     Document Type: Article

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