Expression analysis of the human testis-specific serine/threonine kinase (TSSK) homologues. A TSSK member is present in the equatorial segment of human sperm

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 433-444

  Hao, Zhonglin ^a   Jha, Kula N ^a   Kim, Young Hwan ^a   Vemuganti, Soumya ^a   Westbrook, V Anne ^a   Chertihin, Olga ^a   Markgraf, Karin ^a   Flickinger, Charles J ^a   Coppola, Michael ^a   Herr, John C ^a   Visconti, Pablo E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Serine; Spermatogenesis; Testis specific; Threonine kinase; TSKS; TSSK

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CALMODULIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 22; CHROMOSOME 5; DNA LIBRARY; DOT HYBRIDIZATION; EJACULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 2642537528     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gah052     Document Type: Article

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