Interspecific analysis of the glycosidases of the sperm plasma membrane in Drosophila

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-100

  Intra, Jari ^a   Cenni, Federica ^a   Pavesi, Giulio ^a   Pasini, Maria ^a   Perotti, Maria Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA LEVO FUCOSIDASE; ALPHA MANNOSIDASE; BETA N ACETYLHEXOSAMINIDASE; CARBOHYDRATE; LECTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOCHEMISTRY; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME KINETICS; ENZYME PURIFICATION; FEMALE; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MALE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PH; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPERMATOZOON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FEMALE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; HUMANS; KINETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

DROSOPHILA HYDEI; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA VIRILIS; DROSOPHILA WILLISTONI; SCAPTODROSOPHILA; SCAPTODROSOPHILA LEBANONENSIS;

EID: 58449100552     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20932     Document Type: Article

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