Ikbkap/Elp1 Deficiency Causes Male Infertility by Disrupting Meiotic Progression

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lin, Fu Jung ^a,b,c   Shen, Li ^a,b,c   Jang, Chuan Wei ^a,f   Falnes, Pål Ø ^d   Zhang, Yi ^a,b,c,e  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELP1 PROTEIN; I KAPPA B KINASE; I KAPPA B KINASE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; DOWN REGULATION; GAMETOGENESIS; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MAMMAL; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME PAIRING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA, TRANSFER; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; SYNAPSIS;

EID: 84878485873     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003516     Document Type: Article

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