The postacrosomal assembly of sperm head protein, PAWP, is independent of acrosome formation and dependent on microtubular manchette transport

Developmental Biology

Volumn 312, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 471-483

  Wu, Alexander T H ^a   Sutovsky, Peter ^b,c   Xu, Wei ^a   van der Spoel, Aarnoud C ^d   Platt, Frances M ^d   Oko, Richard ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acrosomeless sperm; Microtubular manchette; NB DNJ treatment; PAWP protein; Perinuclear theca; Postacrosomal sheath; Postacrosomal sheath assembly; Sperm; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; ANTIBODY; BETA TUBULIN; BINDING PROTEIN; IMINOSUGAR; MESSENGER RNA; POSTACROSOMAL SHEATH WW DOMAIN BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERM CELL; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON ABNORMALITY;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 36549005959     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2007.08.051     Document Type: Article

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