DDX3X, the X homologue of AZFa gene DDX3Y, expresses a complex pattern of transcript variants only in the male germ line

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1208-1222

  Rauschendorf, Marc Alexander ^a,b   Zimmer, Jutta ^a   Ohnmacht, Caroline ^a   Vogt, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE ET DE BIOLOGIE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

5 UTR and 3 UTR transcript variants; DDX3X evolution; DDX3Y gene homologue; Male germ line

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DDX3X GENE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPERMATID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSLATION REGULATION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIMATE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TESTIS;

PRIMATES;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; DDX3X PROTEIN, HUMAN; DDX3Y PROTEIN, HUMAN; DEAD BOX PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; DEAD-BOX RNA HELICASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEIOSIS; MICE; POLYADENYLATION; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPERMATIDS; TESTIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84930390819     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gau081     Document Type: Article

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