Females of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus differ in the structures of their egg jelly sulfated fucans

Glycobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 939-946

  Alves, Ana Paula ^a   Mulloy, Barbara ^b   Moy, Gary W ^c   Vacquier, Victor D ^c   Mourão, Paulo A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Sea urchin egg jelly; Sulfated fucan

Indexed keywords

EGG PROTEIN; EGG WHITE; FUCAN; ION CHANNEL; POLYSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE SULFATE; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EXOCYTOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEA URCHIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SULFATION;

ANIMALIA; ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS PURPURATUS;

EID: 0031706553     PISSN: 09596658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/8.9.939     Document Type: Article

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