Rosbin: A Novel Homeobox-Like Protein Gene Expressed Exclusively in Round Spermatids

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1485-1492

  Takahashi, Tohru ^a,b   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^a   Iguchi, Naoko ^a   Kitamura, Kouichi ^a   Chen, Yily ^a   Maekawa, Mamiko ^c   Nishimura, Hiromi ^a   Ohta, Hiroshi ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a,b   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^b   Okuyama, Akihiko ^b   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental biology; Gene regulation; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL ISOLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; HAPLOIDY; HOMEOBOX; HOMEOBOX LIKE PROTEIN GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; ROSBIN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL SHAPE; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, HOMEOBOX; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEMINAL PLASMA PROTEINS; SPERMATIDS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 11144357592     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.026096     Document Type: Article

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