A spontaneous Smc1b mutation causes cohesin protein dysfunction and sterility in mice

Experimental Biology and Medicine

Volumn 234, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 994-1001

  Takabayashi, Shuji ^a   Yamauchi, Yumika ^a   Tsume, Mami ^b   Noguchi, Motoko ^c   Katoh, Hideki ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cohesin protein; Mouse; Smc1b gene; Sterility

Indexed keywords

COHESIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DMC1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFERTILITY; MALE; MEL1 GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SERTOLI CELL; SMC1B GENE; SPERMATID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; ORGAN SIZE; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS;

MUS;

EID: 68149141469     PISSN: 15353702     EISSN: 15353699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3181/0808-RM-244     Document Type: Article

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