Mouse Y-encoded transcription factor Zfy2 is essential for sperm head remodelling and sperm tail development

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Vernet, Nadege ^a,b   Mahadevaiah, Shantha K ^a,c   Decarpentrie, Fanny ^a,c   Longepied, Guy ^f,g   De Rooij, Dirk G ^d,e   Burgoyne, Paul S ^a   Mitchell, Michael J ^f,g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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

^c THE FRANCIS CRICK INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^g INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN ZFY2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZFY2 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ARM; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; MOUSE MODEL; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERM HEAD REMODELING; SPERMATID; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON TAIL; TRANSGENE; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES; SPERM HEAD; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84955441299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145398     Document Type: Article

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