Ubiquitin-proteasome system in spermatogenesis

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 759, Issue , 2014, Pages 181-213

  Bose, Rohini ^a   Manku, Gurpreet ^a   Culty, Martine ^a   Wing, Simon S ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Deubiquitinating enzymes; Gonocytes; Histones; Meiotic sex chromosome inactivation; Nucleosome; Proteasome; Recombination; Spermatogonia; Ubiquitin; Ubiquitinated histones

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN; PROTEIN MDM2;

ACROSOME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MEIOSIS; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; SEX CHROMOSOME; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOGONIUM; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; STEM CELL; UBIQUITINATION; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; NUCLEOSOME REMODELING; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; SPERMATID;

EID: 84934434208     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-817-2_9     Document Type: Review

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