Alteration in the processing of the ACRBP/sp32 protein and sperm head/acrosome malformations in proprotein convertase 4 (PCSK4) null mice

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 298-307

  Tardif, Steve ^a,b   Guyonnet, Benoit ^a   Cormier, Nathaly ^a   Cornwall, Gail A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACRBP; Acrosome; PCSK4; Proprotein convertase; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; BINDING PROTEIN; ISOPROTEIN; PROACROSIN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 4; PROTEIN SP32; SERINE PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SPERMATOZOON;

ACROSIN; ACROSOME; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; ENZYME PRECURSORS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOLYSIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPERM HEAD; SPERMATOZOA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DIFFERENCE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS;

MUS;

EID: 84861740805     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gas009     Document Type: Article

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