Transition Nuclear Proteins Are Required for Normal Chromatin Condensation and Functional Sperm Development

Genesis (United States)

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 200-213

  Zhao, Ming ^a   Shirley, Cynthia R ^a,d   Hayashi, Shotaro ^b,e   Marcon, Ludovic ^c,g   Mohapatra, Bhagyalaxmi ^a,f   Suganuma, Ryota ^b   Behringer, Richard R ^a   Boissonneault, Guylain ^c   Yanagimachi, Ryuzo ^b   Melstrich, Marvin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^e FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infertility; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Knockout mice; Protamine; Spermatogenesis; Transition nuclear proteins

Indexed keywords

DNA; HISTONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTAMINE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSITION NUCLEAR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TNP GENE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 2342558645     PISSN: 1526954X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gene.20019     Document Type: Article

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