CK2 is a highly conserved tetrameric serine/threonine kinase present in all eukaryotic
organisms. It is constitutively active, and appears to be regulated by level of expression and …

The calcium ([Ca2+] i) oscillations associated with mammalian fertilization and required to
induce egg activation occur during M-phase stages of the cell cycle. The molecular …

BACKGROUND The oocyte-to-embryo transition (OET) requires a co-ordinated
transcriptional programme acting through evolutionarily conserved events, and transcription …

The UL47 gene product, VP8, is one of the major tegument proteins of bovine herpesvirus 1
(BoHV-1) and is subject to phosphorylation. Analysis of protein bands co …

In this chapter, a short evolutionary history and comparative analysis of sperm nuclear basic
proteins (SNBPs) in marine invertebrates are presented based on some of the most recent …

The estrogen receptor (ER), like other members of the nuclear receptor superfamily,
possesses two separate transcriptional activation functions, AF-1 and AF-2. Although a …

Data from cDNA-AFLP analysis based on the genome-wide transcriptional profiling on the
flower buds of the male meiotic cytokinesis (mmc) mutant and its wild-type of Brassica …

In recent years, the impact of sperm DNA damage on fertility has become an important issue.
The different technologies developed to check sperm DNA fragmentation lead to the same …

In all vertebrates, mature oocytes arrest at the metaphase of the II meiotic division, while
some invertebrates arrest at metaphase-I, others at prophase-I. Fertilization induces …

Protein kinase CK2 is a serine/threonine kinase expressed in organisms from yeast to
human and is composed of a catalytic subunit (α or α') and a regulatory subunit (β) forming a …