Complex N-glycans are essential, but core 1 and 2 mucin O-glycans, O-fucose glycans, and NOTCH1 are dispensable, for mammalian spermatogenesis

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Batista, Frank ^a   Lu, Linchao ^a,b   Williams, Suzannah A ^a,c   Stanley, Pamela ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glycosyltransferases; Notch signaling; Sperm maturation; Spermatid; Testis

Indexed keywords

CRE RECOMBINASE; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FUCOSE; GLYCAN DERIVATIVE; MUCIN 1; MUCIN 2; N GLYCAN; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; SYNTHETASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACYLTRANSFERASE; MGAT1, MOUSE; NOTCH1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOUSE; MULTINUCLEAR CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SYMPLAST; SYNTHESIS; TESTIS WEIGHT; TRANSGENE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POLYSACCHARIDES; RECEPTOR, NOTCH1; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84863454695     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.111.098103     Document Type: Article

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