SPO11 is required for sex-body formation, and Spo11 heterozygosity rescues the prophase arrest of Atm-/- spermatocytes

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 3233-3245

  Bellani, Marina A ^a   Romanienko, Peter J ^a,b   Cairatti, Damian A ^a   Camerini Otero, R Daniel ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ATM; ATR; H2AX; Meiosis; Sex body; SPO11

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN; CHECKPOINT KINASE RAD3; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SPO11 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; X CHROMATIN; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMATIN; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; DNA-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESTERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOTE; HISTONES; MALE; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC PROPHASE I; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHROMATIN; SPERMATOCYTES; TESTIS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 24344477495     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.02466     Document Type: Article

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