Small-molecule inhibition of BRDT for male contraception

Cell

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 673-684

  Matzuk, Martin M ^a   McKeown, Michael R ^b   Filippakopoulos, Panagis ^c   Li, Qinglei ^d   Ma, Lang ^a   Agno, Julio E ^a   Lemieux, Madeleine E ^b,e   Picaud, Sarah ^c   Yu, Richard N ^f   Qi, Jun ^b   Knapp, Stefan ^c,g   Bradner, James E ^b,h  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Bioinfo   (Canada)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; FOLLITROPIN; HISTONE H4; JQ 1; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; LYSINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN BRDT; PROTEIN INHIBITOR; TESTOSTERONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTRACEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; EPIDIDYMIS; GERM CELL; HISTOLOGY; HISTONE ACETYLATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TESTIS; TESTIS SIZE;

EID: 84865229469     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: 10974172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2012.06.045     Document Type: Article

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