Tap73 is essential for germ cell adhesion and maturation in testis

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1173-1190

  Holembowski, Lena ^a   Kramer, Daniela ^a   Riedel, Dietmar ^c   Sordella, Raffaella ^d   Nemajerova, Alice ^b   Dobbelstein, Matthias ^a   Moll, Ute M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN P73; PROTEINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; CELL ADHESION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERM CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELL; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MALE; MICE; MICE, 129 STRAIN; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEMINIFEROUS EPITHELIUM; SERTOLI CELLS; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOA; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84897491377     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: 15408140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.201306066     Document Type: Article

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