Immunogold evidence suggests that endoplasmic reticulum is the site of protamine-type protein synthesis and participates in translocation of these proteins into the nucleus during chara vulgaris spermiogenesis1

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 572-580

  Popłońska, Katarzyna ^a   Kwiatkowska, Maria ^a   Wojtczak, Agnieszka ^a   Polit, Justyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chara vulgaris; Endoplasmic reticulum; ER cisternae and vesicles; Gamete biology; Immunogold technique; Nucleohistones; Protamine type proteins; Spermatid; Spermiogenesis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; HISTONE; LAMIN B; LYSINE; PROTAMINE; TRITIUM;

ALGA; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHARA VULGARIS; CHROMATIN; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ALGAL PROTEINS; ARGININE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHARA; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GAMETOGENESIS; GERM CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LYSINE; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; PROTAMINES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; TRITIUM;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; CHARA; CHARA TOMENTOSA; CHARA VULGARIS;

EID: 62149085534     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.108.067918     Document Type: Article

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