Inactivation of the Mgat1 gene in oocytes impairs oogenesis, but embryos lacking complex and hybrid N-glycans develop and implant

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 9920-9929

  Shi, Shaolin ^a   Williams, Suzannah A ^a   Seppo, Antti ^a,c   Kurniawan, Henry ^a   Chen, Wei ^a,d   Ye, Zhengyi ^b   Marth, Jamey D ^b   Stanley, Pamela ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c Ikonisys Inc   (United States)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; GLYCOPROTEIN; N GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN ZP1; PROTEIN ZP2; PROTEIN ZP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE INACTIVATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; LYMPHOCYTE TRANSFORMATION; MALE; MGAT 1 GENE; MOUSE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLASTOCYST; DNA; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OOCYTES; OOGENESIS; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREGNANCY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7644233735     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.22.9920-9929.2004     Document Type: Article

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