Isolation, characterization and cDNA sequencing of acrosin from turkey spermatozoa

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 127-136

  Słowińska, Mariola ^a   Olczak, Mariusz ^b   Liszewska, Ewa ^a   Watorek, Wiesław ^b   Ciereszko, Andrzej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acrosin; CDNA; Semen; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; APROTININ; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ENZYME PRECURSOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; PROACROSIN; PROLINE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UREA; AMIDASE; GELATINASE;

ACIDITY; ACROSOME; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FERTILIZATION; GEL FILTRATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOELECTRIC POINT; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOZOON; TURKEY (BIRD); AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AVES; MAMMALIA;

ACROSIN; AMIDOHYDROLASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME PRECURSORS; GELATINASES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPERMATOZOA; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR, KAZAL PANCREATIC; TURKEYS;

EID: 77954143495     PISSN: 10964959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2010.05.011     Document Type: Article

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