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ArticleFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2021

SUN5 Interacting With Nesprin3 Plays an Essential Role in Sperm Head-to-Tail Linkage: Research on Sun5 Gene Knockout Mice.

Yunfei Zhang, Linfei Yang, Lihua Huang, Gang Liu, Xinmin Nie, Xinxing Zhang, Xiaowei Xing

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Article in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Togaram Ensures Axial Alignment of the Sperm Neck.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. SUN5 forms a regular protein lattice reinforcing the sperm head-tail junction.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  12. Genetic etiological spectrum of sperm morphological abnormalities.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2024
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  17. Development of the Connecting Piece in ODF1-Deficient Mouse Spermatids.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Yunfei ZhangCenter for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Linfei YangCenter for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Lihua HuangCenter for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Gang LiuThe Institute of Reproduction and Stem Cell Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Xinmin NieDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Xinxing ZhangCenter for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Xiaowei XingCenter for Experimental Medicine, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China.
Third Xiangya Hospital · CNCentral South University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acephalic spermatozoa syndrome is a rare genetic and reproductive disease. Recent studies have shown that approximately 33-47% of patients with acephalic spermatozoa syndrome have SUN5 mutations, but the molecular mechanism underlying this phenomenon has not been elucidated. In this study, we generated Sun5 knockout mice and found that the head-to-tail linkage was broken in Sun5

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centrosomeLINC complexNesprin3sperm head-to-tail linkageSUN5

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