Sea urchin egg receptor for sperm: The oligosaccharide chains stabilize sperm binding

Glycobiology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-64

  Dhume, Shirish T ^a   Stears, Robin L ^a   Lennarz, William J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Sea urchin egg; Sperm binding; Sperm binding oligosaccharide

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RECEPTOR; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOASSAY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA URCHIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; FEMALE; KINETICS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; OVUM; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEA URCHINS; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SULFATES;

EID: 0029868149     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/6.1.59     Document Type: Article

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