RAB-Like 2 Has an Essential Role in Male Fertility, Sperm Intra-Flagellar Transport, and Tail Assembly

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Lo, Jennifer C Y ^a   Jamsai, Duangporn ^a   O'Connor, Anne E ^a   Borg, Claire ^a   Clark, Brett J ^a   Whisstock, James C ^a   Field, Mark C ^b   Adams, Vicki ^c   Ishikawa, Tomomoto ^a   Aitken, R John ^d   Whittle, Belinda ^c   Goodnow, Christopher C ^c   Ormandy, Christopher J ^e   O'Bryan, Moira K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Biology and Environment   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAB LIKE 2 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLAGELLUM; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GERM CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GERM CELLS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84868108255     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002969     Document Type: Article

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