RGS22, a novel testis-specific regulator of G-protein signaling involved in human and mouse spermiogenesis along with GNA12/13 subunits

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1021-1029

  Hu, Yanqiu ^a,b   Xing, Jun ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Guo, Xuejiang ^a   Du, Yong ^a   Zhao, Chun ^a   Zhu, Yefei ^a   Lin, Min ^a   Zhou, Zuomin ^a   Sha, Jiahao ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; G protein subunits; Nuclear translocation; RGS proteins; RGS22; Spermatogenesis; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RGS22 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SEPARATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEIN ALPHA SUBUNITS, G12-G13; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MICE; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TESTIS;

EID: 56749134320     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.067504     Document Type: Article

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