A role for the disintegrin domain of cyritestin, a sperm surface protein belonging to the ADAM family, in mouse sperm-egg plasma membrane adhesion and fusion

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-112

  Yuan, Ruiyong ^a,b   Primakoff, Paul ^a   Myles, Diana G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ACROSOME; ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA SYNTHESIS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SPERM;

ADAM PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BINDING SITES; CELL ADHESION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPERM HEAD; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 0030951614     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.137.1.105     Document Type: Article

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