Identification of ejaculated proteins in the house mouse (Mus domesticus) via isotopic labeling

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Dean, Matthew D ^a,b   Findlay, Geoffrey D ^c   Hoopmann, Michael R ^c   Wu, Christine C ^d   MacCoss, Michael J ^c   Swanson, Willie J ^c   Nachman, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejaculate; Evolution; Seminal fluid

Indexed keywords

ALDOLASE 1A; AT RICH INTERACTIVE DOMAIN 1B; BETA 2C TUBULIN; CATHEPSIN L; CELL PROTEIN; CHLORIDE CHANNEL CALCIUM ACTIVATED 3 PROTEIN; CORNEODESMOSIN; DEAH BOX POLYPEPTIDE 9; ELASTIN; HISTONE CLUSTER 1E; KALLIKREIN RELATED PEPTIDASE 14; LACTOFERRIN; MAJOR URINARY PROTEIN 4; NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN; NITROGEN 15; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; REPRODUCTIVE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POU4F1; TRANSFERRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; EJACULATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; VASECTOMY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REPRODUCTION; SPERM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS;

ANIMALS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FEMALE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MALE; MICE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SEMEN; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 79958094340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-306     Document Type: Article

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