Arginine decarboxylase and agmatinase: An alternative pathway for de novo biosynthesis of polyamines for development of mammalian conceptuses

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoqiu ^a   Ying, Wei ^a   Dunlap, Kathrin A ^a   Lin, Gang ^a,c   Satterfield, M Carey ^a   Burghardt, Robert C ^b   Wu, Guoyao ^a   Bazer, Fuller W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Development; Polyamines; Sheep; Trophectoderm

Indexed keywords

AGMATINASE; AGMATINE; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ARGININE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHOLINO ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; MORPHOLINO OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARBOXYLYASE; CITRULLINE; ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; HYDROLASE; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC SHEEP; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STRUCTURES; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; IN VIVO STUDY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RNA TRANSLATION; SURVIVAL; TROPHECTODERM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BREEDING; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SHEEP;

AGMATINE; ANIMALS; CARBOXY-LYASES; CATIONIC AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER 1; CITRULLINE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MAMMALS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; ORNITHINE; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PUTRESCINE; SHEEP; SPERMIDINE; SPERMINE; UREOHYDROLASES;

EID: 84903763748     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.113.114637     Document Type: Article

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