Integration of the mouse sperm fertilization-related protein equatorin into the acrosome during spermatogenesis as revealed by super-resolution and immunoelectron microscopy

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 352, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 739-750

  Ito, Chizuru ^a   Yamatoya, Kenji ^a   Yoshida, Keiichi ^b   Fujimura, Lisa ^a   Hatano, Masahiko ^a   Miyado, Kenji ^c   Toshimori, Kiyotaka ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Equatorin; Fertilization; Mouse; Spermatogenesis; Testis

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; EPITOPE; EQUATORIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH RESOLUTION FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUPER RESOLUTION STIMULATED EMISSION DEPLETION NANOSCOPY; TESTIS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PEANUT AGGLUTININ; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPERMATOGENESIS; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TESTIS;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 84878565562     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: 14320878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-013-1605-y     Document Type: Article

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