Forty-four novel protein-coding loci discovered using a proteomics informed by transcriptomics (PIT) approach in rat male germ cells

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Chocu, Sophie ^a   Evrard, Bertrand ^a   Lavigne, ^a   Rolland, Antoine D ^a   Aubry, Florence ^a   Jégou, Bernard ^a   Chalmel, Frédéric ^a   Pineau, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Proteomics; RNA profiling; Spermatogenesis; Testicular unannotated transcripts; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; PROTEOME; SYNAPTOBREVIN; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICLE ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 9;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GERM CELL; MALE FERTILITY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; RAT; RNA SEQUENCE; SPERMATID; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; OPEN READING FRAME; PROCEDURES; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; MALE; OPEN READING FRAMES; PROTEOMICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPERMATOGONIA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84920271895     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.114.122416     Document Type: Article

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