Multiple vitellogenin-derived yolk proteins in gray mullet (Mugil cephalus): Disparate proteolytic patterns associated with ovarian follicle maturation

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1307-1317

  Amano, Haruna ^a   Fujita, Toshiaki ^a   Hiramatsu, Naoshi ^a   Kagawa, Hirohiko ^b   Matsubara, Takahiro ^c   Sullivan, Craig V ^d   Hara, Akihiko ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Egg yolk proteins; Gray mullet; Ovarian follicle maturation; Pelagic egg; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; LIPOVITELLIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PHOSVITIN; VITELLOGENIN; VITELLOGENIN A; VITELLOGENIN B; VITELLOGENIN C; YOLK PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BARFIN FLOUNDER; FEMALE; GRAY MULLET; HYDRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVULATION; PELAGIC FISH; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPAWNING; TELEOST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; EGG PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; IMMUNOELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEXUAL MATURATION; SMEGMAMORPHA; VITELLOGENINS;

MUGIL; MUGIL CEPHALUS; PISCES; TELEOSTEI; VERASPER MOSERI;

EID: 46049106761     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20864     Document Type: Article

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