Controlling fertilization and cAMP signaling in sperm by optogenetics

eLife

Volumn 2015, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Jansen, Vera ^a   Alvarez, Luis ^a   Balbach, Melanie ^a   Strünker, Timo ^a   Hegemann, Peter ^b   Kaupp, U Benjamin ^a   Wachten, Dagmar ^a  

^a CENTER OF ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CAESAR   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BACTERIAL VECTOR; CYCLIC AMP; CALCIUM; PROTAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEGGIATOA; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLAGELLUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPTOGENETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; FERTILITY; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; SOLUBILITY; SPERMATOZOON; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MUS MUSCULUS;

ADENYLYL CYCLASES; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CYCLIC AMP; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OPTOGENETICS; PROTAMINES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLUBILITY; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOA; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 85005777548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05161     Document Type: Article

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