Differential contribution of the MTOR and MNK pathways to the regulation of mRNA translation in meiotic and postmeiotic mouse male germ cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 607-615

  Messina, Valeria ^a,b   Di Sauro, Annarita Di ^a   Pedrotti, Simona ^a,b   Adesso, Laura ^a,c   Latina, Alessia ^a   Geremia, Raffaele ^a   Rossi, Pellegrino ^a   Sette, Claudio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamete biology; Kinases; Meiosis; MNK; mRNA translation; mRNA translational regulation; MTOR; RNA metabolism; Signal transduction; Spermatogenesis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE INHIBITOR; INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; OKADAIC ACID; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GERM CELL; HAPLOID SPORE; HEAT SHOCK; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4F; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; OKADAIC ACID; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTES; SPERMATOGENESIS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957593406     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.110.085050     Document Type: Article

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