Interactions between a decapacitation factor and mouse spermatozoa appear to involve fucose residues and a GPI-anchored receptor

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-202

  Fraser, Lynn R ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decapacitation factor; Fucose; GPI anchor; Receptor; UEAI

Indexed keywords

FUCOSE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CENTRIFUGATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; EPIDIDYMIS; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FERTILIZATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYSPERMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ACROSOME; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; FUCOSE; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; LECTINS; MALE; MICE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PLANT LECTINS; SERUM ALBUMIN, BOVINE; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 0031692764     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199810)51:2<193::AID-MRD9>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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