Equatorin is not essential for acrosome biogenesis but is required for the acrosome reaction

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 444, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 537-542

  Hao, Jianxiu ^a,b   Chen, Min ^a   Ji, Shaoyang ^a,b   Wang, Xiaona ^a,b   Wang, Yanbo ^a,b   Huang, Xingxu ^d   Yang, Lin ^c   Wang, Yaqing ^c   Cui, Xiuhong ^a   Lv, Limin ^a   Liu, Yixun ^a   Gao, Fei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Eqtn; Male infertility; SNAREs

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTION; EQTN; MALE INFERTILITY; SNARES;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1;

EID: 84894515854     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.01.080     Document Type: Article

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