Female Lethality and Apoptosis of Spermatocytes in Mice Lacking the UBR2 Ubiquitin Ligase of the N-End Rule Pathway

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 8255-8271

  Kwon, Yong Tae ^a   Xia, Zanxian ^b   An, Jee Young ^a   Tasaki, Takafumi ^a   Davydov, Ilia V ^b,c   Seo, Jai Wha ^a   Sheng, Jun ^b   Xie, Youming ^b,d   Varshavsky, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c IGEN Inc   (United States)

^d WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

E3 ALPHA ENZYME; E3 ENZYME; ENZYME; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UBR1 UBIQUITIN LIGASE; UBR2 UBIQUITIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; GENOTYPE; INFERTILITY; LETHALITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SURVIVAL; SYNAPTONEMAL COMPLEX; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; ZYGOTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENES, LETHAL; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSFECTION; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0242664014     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.22.8255-8271.2003     Document Type: Article

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