Article
The lack of protamine 2 (P2) in boar and bull spermatozoa is due to mutations within the P2 gene.
Nucleic acids research - 11 Mar 1990
Maier W M, Nussbaum G, Domenjoud L, Klemm U, Engel W
Abstract excerpt
The nuclei of spermatozoa in all mammals examined so far contain P1 protamine. A second protamine variant, protamine P2, has to date been isolated only from human and murine spermatozoa where it represents the major fraction of basic nuclear protein. In order to elucidate the reason for this unus...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Northern
- Cattle
- DNA
- Gene Expression
- Genes
- Humans
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nucleic Acid Hybridization
- Protamines
- Protein Biosynthesis
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Spermatozoa
- Swine