Identification of a Member of a New RNase A Family Specifically Secreted by Epididymal Caput Epithelium

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 319-328

  Castella, Sandrine ^a   Fouchécourt, Sophie ^a   Teixeira Gomes, Ana Paula ^b   Vinh, Joëlle ^c   Belghazi, Maya ^d   Dacheux, Françoise ^a   Dacheux, Jean Louis ^a,b  

^a UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

Author keywords

Epididymis; Gamete biology; Male reproductive tract; Sperm maturation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTISERUM; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE A; TRAIN A PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM; GAMETE; GLYCOSYLATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HORSE; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; RAM; RAT; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SWINE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; HORSES; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RIBONUCLEASE, PANCREATIC; SHEEP; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERM MATURATION; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; CAPUT; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0742288923     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.022459     Document Type: Article

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