46
Views
4
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original

Cloning, characterization and identification of Rcet1-v1 and Rcet1-v2, two novel splice variants of mouse Rcet1 related to Cres subgroup of family 2 cystatins

Full Length Research Paper

, , , , , & show all
Pages 13-19 | Received 22 Mar 2006, Accepted 01 Nov 2006, Published online: 11 Jul 2009

References

  • Adams MD, Kerlavage AR, Fleischmann RF, Bult C, Lee N, Kirkness E, et al. Initial assessment of human gene diversity and expression patterns based upon 63 million nucleotides of cDNA sequences. Nature 1995; 377(Suppl.)2–174
  • Bourrouillou G, Dastugue N, Colombies P. Chromosome studies in 952 infertile males with a sperm count below 10 million/ml. Hum Genet 1985; 71: 366–367
  • Cornwall GA, Hann SR. Transient appearance of CRES protein during spermatogenesis and caput epididymal sperm maturation. Mol Reprod Dev 1995; 41: 37–46
  • Cornwall GA, Orgebin-Crist MC, Hann SR. The CRES gene: A unique testis-regulated gene related to the cystatin family is highly restricted in its expression to the proximal region of the mouse epididymis. Mol Endocrinol 1992; 6: 1653–1664
  • Hsia N, Cornwall GA. A new members of the CRES subgroup of family 2 cystatins. Mol Cell Endocrinol 2003; 200: 1–8
  • Luk JM, Mok BW, Shum CK, Yeung WS, Tam PC, Tse JY, et al. Identification of novel genes expressed during spermatogenesis in stagesynchronized rat teses by differential display. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2003; 307(4)782–790
  • Nie DS, Xiang Y, Wang J, Deng Y, Tan XJ, Liang YH. Identification of a novel testis-specific gene mtLR1, which is expressed at specific stages of mouse spermatogenesis. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2005; 328: 1010–1018
  • Qian J, Zhang XM, Li XL, Wang JR, Li WF, Wang R. Identification of digital differential expression patterns of a novel human gene (UBAP1) by an expressed sequence tag strategy. Ai Zheng 2002; 21(3)225–228
  • Sutton HG, Fusco A, Cornwall GA. Cystatin-related epididymal spermatogenic protein colocalizes with luteinizing hormone-beta protein in mouse anterior pituitary gonadotropes. Endocrinology 1999; 140: 2721–2732
  • Syntin P, Cornwall GA. Immunolocalization of CRES (cystatin-related epididymal spermatogenic) protein in the acrosomes of mouse spermatozoa. Biol Reprod 1999; 60: 1542–1552
  • Turk V, Bode W. The cystatins: Protein inhibitors of cysteine proteinases. FEBS Lett 1991; 285: 213–219
  • Vogt PH, Edelmann A, Kirsch S, Henegariu O, Hirschmann P, Kiesewetter F, et al. Human Y chromosome azoospermia factors (AZF) mapped to different subregions in Yq11. Hum Mol Genet 1996; 5: 933–943
  • Xiang Y, Nie DS, Lu GX. Cloning of a novel gene, Cymg1, related to family 2 cystatins and expressed at specific stages of mouse testis development. J Genet 2004; 3: 257–263

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.