Murine Spam1 mRNA: Involvement of AU-rich elements in the 3′UTR and antisense RNA in its tight post-transcriptional regulation in spermatids

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 247-255

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Barnoski, Barry L ^b   Sol Church, Katia ^c   Stabley, Deborah L ^c   Martin Deleon, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEMOURS ALFRED I DUPONT HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

Author keywords

Co suppression; Cytoskeletal interactions; mRNA decay; RNA binding proteins; Transgenic expression

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; AU RICH ELEMENT; AU RICH ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; BINDING PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; HYALURONIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SPERM ADHESION MOLECULE 1; TRANS ACTING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DOWN REGULATION; FOUNDER EFFECT; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HYAL5 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA METABOLISM; SPAM1 GENE; SPERMATID; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TRANSGENICS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ADENOSINE; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HYALURONOGLUCOSAMINIDASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; URIDINE;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 30144432220     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20400     Document Type: Article

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