Identification and characterization of SSTK, a serine/threonine protein kinase essential for male fertility

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 4250-4261

  Spiridonov, Nikolay A ^a   Wong, Lily ^a   Zerfas, Patricia M ^b   Starost, Matthew F ^b   Pack, Svetlana D ^c   Paweletz, Cloud P ^d,e   Johnson, Gibbes R ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^d UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^e MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK COGNATE PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; HISTONE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE DELETION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; FERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HSC70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TESTIS;

EID: 18144369690     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.10.4250-4261.2005     Document Type: Article

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