Sperm-activating proteins obtained from the herring eggs are homologous to trypsin inhibitors and synthesized in follicle cells

Developmental Biology

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-63

  Oda, Shoji ^a   Igarashi, Yoshihiko ^b   Manaka, Ken Ichi ^b   Koibuchi, Noriyuki ^b   Sakai Sawada, Mikako ^b   Sakai, Kosuke ^c   Morisawa, Masaaki ^a   Ohtake, Hideki ^b   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosin inhibitor; Activation; Chorion; Egg; Fertilization; Fish; Spermatozoa; Trypsin inhibitor

Indexed keywords

ACROSIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRYPSIN INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHORION; EGG; FERTILIZATION; FISH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY;

ANIMALIA; CLUPEA HARENGUS; CLUPEA PALLASI; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032391339     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1998.9056     Document Type: Article

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