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Spatiotemporal association of DNAJB13 with the annulus during mouse sperm flagellum development
19 Mar 2009
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BACKGROUND: The sperm annulus is a septin-based fibrous ring structure connecting the midpiece and the principal piece of the mammalian sperm flagellum. Although ultrastructural abnormalities and functional importance of the annulus have been addressed in Sept4-null mutant mice and a subset of human patients with asthenospermia syndrome, little is known about how the structure is assembled and positioned to the...
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