LCN6, a novel human epididymal lipocalin
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LCN6, a novel human epididymal lipocalin Katherine G Hamil†1,3, Qiang Liu†1,3,7, P Sivashanmugam2,3,8, M Anbalagan1,3,9, Suresh Yenugu1,3, Rama Soundararajan1,3,10, Gail Grossman2,3, AJ Rao4, Charles E Birse5, Stephen M Ruben5,11, Richard T Richardson2,3, Yong-Lian Zhang6, Michael G O'Rand2,3, Peter Petrusz2,3, Frank S French1,3 and Susan H Hall*1,3 Address: 1Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA, 2Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA, 3Laboratories for Reproductive Biology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA, 4Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India, 5Human Genome Sciences, Inc, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA, 6State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China, 7Present address: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China, 8Present address: Department of Urology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA, 9Present address: Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India, 10Present address: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA and 11Present address: Celera Genomics, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA Email: Katherine G Hamil - [email protected]; Qiang Liu - [email protected]; P Sivashanmugam - [email protected]; M Anbalagan - [email protected]; Suresh Yenugu - [email protected]; Rama Soundararajan - [email protected]; Gail Grossman - [email protected]; AJ Rao - [email protected]; Charles E Birse - [email protected]; Stephen M Ruben - [email protected]; Richard T Richardson - [email protected]; Yong-Lian Zhang - [email protected]; Michael G O'Rand - [email protected]; Peter Petrusz - [email protected]; Frank S French - [email protected]; Susan H Hall* - [email protected] * Corresponding author †Equal contributors
Published: 14 November 2003 Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology 2003, 1:112
Received: 21 October 2003 Accepted: 14 November 2003
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Abstract Background: The lipocalin (LCN) family of structurally conserved hydrophobic ligand binding proteins is represented in all major taxonomic groups from prokaryotes to primates. The importance of lipocalins in reproduction and the similarity to known epididymal lipoca
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