Site-directed mutagenesis of boar proacrosin reveals residues involved in binding of zona pellucida glycoproteins

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 184-192

  Jansen, Stephan ^a,c   Jones, Roy ^b   Jenneckens, Ingo ^a   Marschall, Brit ^a   Kriegesmann, Bernd ^a   Coadwell, John ^a   Brenig, Bertram ^a  

^a Institute of Legal Medicine   (Germany)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binding assay; Proacrosin; Protein modeling; Site directed mutagenesis; Sperm penetration

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; PROACROSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DISULFIDE BOND; FERTILIZATION; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION; SWINE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSIN; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EGG PROTEINS; ENZYME PRECURSORS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SWINE;

EID: 0031657480     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199810)51:2<184::AID-MRD8>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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