The Acroplaxome Is the Docking Site of Golgi-Derived Myosin Va/Rab27a/b-Containing Proacrosomal Vesicles in Wild-Type and Hrb Mutant Mouse Spermatids

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1400-1410

  Kierszenbaum, Abraham L ^a   Tres, Laura L ^a   Rivkin, Eugene ^a   Kang Decker, Ningling ^b   Van Deursen, Jan M A ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Male sexual function; Sperm; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; F ACTIN; KERATIN; MYOSIN V; MYOSIN VA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN HRB; PROTEIN RAB17A B; RAB PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROPLAXOME; ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SHAPE; CELL VACUOLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DERIVATIZATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; MALE; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSPORT VESICLE; WILD TYPE;

ACROSOME; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GOLGI APPARATUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KERATIN-5; KERATINS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MUTATION; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; MYOSIN TYPE V; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SPERMATIDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1942476757     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.103.025346     Document Type: Article

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