High-pressure freezing of spermiogenic nuclei supports a dynamic chromatin model for the histone-to-protamine transition

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1399-1409

  Martens, Garnet ^a   Humphrey, Elaine C ^b   Harrison, Lionel G ^a   Silva Moreno, Begonia ^b   Ausió, Juan ^b   Kasinsky, Harold E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Condensation; High pressure freezing; Nucella lamellosa; Nucleoplasm; Patterning; Sperm nuclear basic proteins; Spermiogenesis; Spinodal decomposition; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; HISTONE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; DECOMPOSITION; FREEZING; HYPERBARISM; HYPOTHESIS; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PHASE SEPARATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TISSUE FIXATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; FREEZING; GASTROPODA; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HISTONES; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PROTAMINES; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENOGASTROPODA; MOLLUSCA; NUCELLA LAMELLOSA;

EID: 71749114021     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: 10974644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcb.22373     Document Type: Article

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