CatSper ion channels: Bioinformatics analysis in Homo sapiens

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 45, 2011, Pages 9017-9022

  Kanwal, Sehrish ^a   Iqbal, Hina ^a   Parveen, Alia ^a   Khattak, Jabber Zaman ^a   Mir, Asif ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics analysis; Cation channel; CatSper; Infertility

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; CALCIUM ION; PROTEIN CATSPER1; PROTEIN CATSPER2; PROTEIN CATSPER3; PROTEIN CATSPER4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANE; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 80051924505     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/ajb10.2295     Document Type: Article

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