Isolation and characterization of the spermatid-specific Smrp1 gene encoding a novel manchette protein

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 967-975

  Matsuoka, Yasuhiro ^a   Miyagawa, Yasushi ^a   Tokuhiro, Keizo ^b   Kitamura, Kouichi ^c   Iguchi, Naoko ^c   Maekawa, Mamiko ^d   Takahashi, Tohru ^a   Tsujimura, Akira ^a   Matsumiya, Kiyomi ^a   Okuyama, Akihiko ^a   Nishimune, Yoshitake ^c   Tanaka, Hiromitsu ^b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Haploid; Manchette; Sperm; Spermiogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SPLICING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATID; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE LIBRARY; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSFECTION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 42949132171     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20835     Document Type: Article

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