A newly identified AMSH-family protein is specifically expressed in haploid stages of testicular germ cells

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 309, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 135-142

  Kitajima, Keiko ^a,b   Matsumoto, Kunio ^a   Tahara, Minoru ^a   Takahashi, Hisaaki ^a   Nakamura, Takahiro ^a,c   Nakamura, Toshikazu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AMSH; JSH region; Signal transduction; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATED PROTEIN WITH SH3 FAMILY PROTEIN ALPHA; ASSOCIATED PROTEIN WITH SH3 FAMILY PROTEIN BETA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0043237479     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-291X(03)01550-X     Document Type: Article

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