Current knowledge of the human sperm proteome

Expert Review of Proteomics

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 591-605

  Nowicka Bauer, Karolina ^a   Kurpisz, Maciej ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Infertility; Mass spectrometry; Sperm proteome

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIENOYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE (NADPH); ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN; ACYL COENZYME A DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE DEHYDROGENASE; ALDEHYDE REDUCTASE; ALPHA TUBULIN; CALGRANULIN B; CASPASE 10; CASPASE 3; CLATHRIN HEAVY CHAIN; COENZYME A; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE ANCHORING PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B5 REDUCTASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME P450; ELONGATION FACTOR 2; FRUCTOSE BISPHOSPHATE ALDOLASE; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 94; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HISTONE H2A; LIPOCORTIN 5; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOGLUCONATE DEHYDROGENASE; PROTEOME; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; PYRUVIC ACID; SULFURTRANSFERASE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BETA CHAIN; FERTILIZATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE INFERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIGOSPERMIA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ISOLATION; REVIEW; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERM; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEOME; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84887891074     PISSN: 14789450     EISSN: 17448387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14789450.2013.846221     Document Type: Review

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