Bfk, a novel member of the Bcl2 gene family, is highly expressed in principal cells of the mouse epididymis and demonstrates a predominant nuclear localization

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 3196-3204

  Pujianto, Dwi Ari ^a   Damdimopoulos, Anastasios E ^a   Sipilä, Petra ^a   Jalkanen, Jenni ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo ^a,b   Poutanen, Matti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANDROGEN; B CELL LYMPHOMA 2 FAMILY KIN PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; STAUROSPORINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EXON; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAD; HORMONAL REGULATION; MALE; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TESTIS FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAUROSPORINE; TESTIS;

EID: 34347227799     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-0018     Document Type: Article

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