Gamete interactions in Xenopus laevis: Identification of sperm binding glycoproteins in the egg vitelline envelope

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1099-1108

  Tian, Jingdong ^a   Gong, Hui ^a   Thomsen, Gerald H ^a   Lennarz, William J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGENASE; GLYCOPEPTIDE; GLYCOPROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; PRONASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMIDOHYDROLASES; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; COLLAGENASES; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLYCOSYLATION; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP41; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; PEPTIDE-N4-(N-ACETYL-BETA-GLUCOSAMINYL) ASPARAGINE AMIDASE; PERIODIC ACID; PRONASE; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; VIRAL PROTEINS; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030933883     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.5.1099     Document Type: Article

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