The protein encoded by cancer/testis gene D40/AF15q14 is localized in spermatocytes, acrosomes of spermatids and ejaculated spermatozoa

Reproduction

Volumn 128, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 709-716

  Sasao, Takumi ^a,b   Itoh, Naoki ^b   Takano, Hiroko ^c   Watanabe, Satoshi ^c   Wei, Gang ^a,d   Tsukamoto, Taiji ^b   Kuzumaki, Noboru ^a   Takimoto, Masato ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; D40 PROTEIN; MIXED LINEAGE LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CANCER; CELL LYSATE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; MALE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACROSOME; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 11144343631     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/rep.1.00312     Document Type: Article

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