TRY-5 is a sperm-activating protease in Caenorhabditis elegans seminal fluid

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Smith, Joseph R ^a   Stanfield, Gillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SWM 1 PROTEIN; TRY 5 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GONAD; HERMAPHRODITISM; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEMINAL PLASMA; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; SPERM ACTIVATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADS; MALE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; SEMEN; SERINE PROTEASES; SPERMATOZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 81755177866     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002375     Document Type: Article

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