Vaccinia-related kinase 1 is required for the maintenance of undifferentiated spermatogonia in mouse male germ cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Choi, Yoon Ha ^a   Park, Choon Ho ^a   Kim, Wanil ^a   Ling, Hua ^b   Kang, Aram ^b   Chang, Matthew Wook ^b   Im, Sun Kyoung ^a   Jeong, Hyun Woo ^a   Kong, Young Yun ^c   Kim, Kyong Tai ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA6 INTEGRIN; EPITHELIAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; INTRINSIC FACTOR; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; PROTEIN KINASE; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VACCINIA RELATED KINASE 1; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POU5F1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN GA733; TUMOR-ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN GA733; VACCINIA RELATED KINASE 1 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GERM CELL; MALE; MARKER GENE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; STEM CELL; TESTIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTEGRIN ALPHA6; MALE; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-3; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGONIA; STEM CELLS; TESTIS;

EID: 78650764600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015254     Document Type: Article

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