Genomic organization, tissue distribution and functional characterization of the rat pate gene cluster

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Rajesh, Angireddy ^a   Yenugu, Suresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CYSTEINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROSTATE AND TESTIS EXPRESSED F PROTEIN; PROSTATE AND TESTIS EXPRESSED PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PATE F PROTEIN, RAT; PATE PROTEIN, RAT; PATE-F PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DOWN REGULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATE GENE; PROSTATE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; SPERM; TESTIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; DRUG EFFECT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

RATTUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; EPIDIDYMIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE ORDER; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEMINAL VESICLES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84859129544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032633     Document Type: Article

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