Mining and characterization of ubiquitin E3 ligases expressed in the mouse testis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hou, Xiaojun ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^a,b   Xiao, Zhenyu ^a,b   Gan, Haiyun ^a   Lin, Xiwen ^a   Liao, Shangying ^a   Han, Chunsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

E3 ubiquitin ligase; Gene mining; Microarray; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE E3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DATA MINING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOME; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN E3 LIGASE GENE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MALE; MICE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84866303565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-495     Document Type: Article

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