Cholesterol-enriched microdomains regulate pseudopod extension in the MSP-based cytoskeleton of amoeboid sperm

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 427, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 478-484

  Fraire Zamora, Juan J ^a   Tran, Tung ^a   Cardullo, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell motility; Cholesterol; Cytoskeleton; Major sperm protein; Membrane microdomains

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN;

AMOEBOID SPERMATOZOA; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CYTOSKELETON; GENETIC STRAIN; IN VITRO STUDY; MAJOR SPERM PROTEIN BASED CYTOSKELETON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLESTEROL; CYTOSKELETON; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; PSEUDOPODIA; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATIDS; SPERMATOZOA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 84867840519     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2012.09.071     Document Type: Article

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