The fucose sulfate polymer of egg jelly binds to sperm REJ and is the inducer of the sea urchin sperm acrosome reaction

Developmental Biology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 125-135

  Vacquier, Victor D ^a   Moy, Gary W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 DIETHYLAMINOETHANOL; DETERGENT; FUCOSE; GLYCOPROTEIN; LIGAND; MERCAPTOETHANOL; POLYMER; PROTEIN; PROTEINASE K; SUCROSE; TRYPSIN; UREA;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEA URCHIN; SPERM; SUCROSE DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION;

EID: 0031456362     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8729     Document Type: Article

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