Polysialic acid is present in mammalian semen as a post-translational modification of the neural cell adhesion molecule NCAM and the polysialyltransferase ST8SiaII

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 18825-18833

  Simon, Peter ^a   Bäumner, Sören ^a   Busch, Oliver ^a   Röhrich, René ^a   Kaese, Miriam ^a   Richterich, Peter ^a   Wehrend, Axel ^a   Müller, Karin ^b   Gerardy Schahn, Rita ^c   Mühlenhoff, Martina ^c   Geyer, Hildegard ^a   Geyer, Rudolf ^a   Middendorff, Ralf ^a   Galuska, Sebastian P ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SEQUENCES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; POLYSIALIC ACID; POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATIONS; TISSUE SECTIONS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BIOMOLECULES; BODY FLUIDS; CELLS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; PROTEINS;

MAMMALS;

NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; POLYSIALIC ACID; POLYSIALYLTRANSFERASE ST8SIAII; SIALYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; SIALYLATION; SPERM; TESTIS;

CELL ADHESION; FERTILIZATION; MAMMALIAN SPERM; NCAM; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSIALIC ACID; POLYSIALYLTRANSFERASE; POST-TRANSLATIONAL MODIFICATION; SPERMATOZOA; ST8SIAII;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEOMICS; RATS; SEMEN; SIALIC ACIDS; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; SPERMATOZOA;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84879597139     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.451112     Document Type: Article

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