TESSP-1: A novel serine protease gene expressed in the spermatogonia and spermatocytes of adult mouse testes

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-10

  Takano, Naoharu ^a   Matsui, Hitoshi ^a   Takahashi, Takayuki ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mouse; Protease; Spermatocyte; Spermatogonia; TESSP 1; Testis

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; TESTIS SPECIFIC SERINE PROTEASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLYCOPROTEIN SYNTHESIS; GLYCOSYLATION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ISOLATION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYCOPROTEINS; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGONIA; TESTIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 10044256743     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20184     Document Type: Article

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