Fertility defects in mice expressing the L68Q variant of human cystatin C: A role for amyloid in male infertility

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 289, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 7718-7729

  Whelly, Sandra ^a   Serobian, Gaiane ^a   Borchardt, Clinton ^a   Powell, Jonathan ^a   Johnson, Seethal ^a   Hakansson, Katarina ^b   Lindstrom, Veronica ^b   Abrahamson, Magnus ^b   Grubb, Anders ^b   Cornwall, Gail A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GLYCOPROTEINS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AMYLOID DEPOSITS; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANTS; CELL VIABILITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CYSTATIN C; MALE INFERTILITY; SPERM MOTILITY; TRANSGENIC MICE;

MAMMALS;

AMYLOID; CYSTATIN C;

AGGLUTINATION TEST; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIDIDYMIS FAT; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MATING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMYLOID; ANIMAL MODELS; CYSTATIN C; EPIDIDYMIS; HEREDITARY CYSTATIN C AMYLOID ANGIOPATHY; MALE FERTILITY; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOA;

AMYLOID; ANIMALS; CYSTATINS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDIDYMIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; POINT MUTATION; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84896277037     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.515759     Document Type: Article

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