Hominoid-specific SPANXA/D genes demonstrate differential expression in individuals and protein localization to a distinct nuclear envelope domain during spermatid morphogenesis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 703-716

  Westbrook, V A ^a   Schoppee, P D ^a   Vanage, G R ^a,b   Klotz, K L ^a   Diekman, A B ^a,c   Flickinger, C J ^a   Coppola, M A ^a   Herr, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Institute for Research in Reproduction India   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hominoids; Spermatozoa; Spermiogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN SPANXA1; PROTEIN SPANXA2; PROTEIN SPANXB; PROTEIN SPANXC; PROTEIN SPANXD; SERINE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; EUCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MORPHOGENESIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ACROSOME; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUCHROMATIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; X CHROMOSOME;

HOMINOIDEA; HOMO; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 33750221834     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gal079     Document Type: Article

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