Three-dimensional structure of the zona pellucida

Reviews of Reproduction

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 147-156

  Green, David P L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FURIN; GLOBULAR PROTEIN; GLYCOSYLATED PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CROSS LINKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; THICKNESS; ULTRASTRUCTURE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030779895     PISSN: 13596004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/ror.0.0020147     Document Type: Review

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