In the absence of the mouse DNA/RNA-binding protein MSY2, messenger RNA instability leads to spermatogenic arrest

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 48-54

  Yang, Juxiang ^a   Morales, Carlos R ^b   Medvedev, Sergey ^c   Schultz, Richard M ^c   Hecht, Norman B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Sperm; Spermatid; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTAMINE; PROTEIN MSY2; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOPLASM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERM CELL; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RAT; RNA STABILITY; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS;

EID: 33845726986     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.106.055095     Document Type: Article

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