Interspecies chimeric sperm lysins identify regions mediating species- specific recognition of the abalone egg vitelline envelope

Developmental Biology

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 151-159

  Lyon, Jonny D ^a   Vacquier, Victor D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Abalone lysin; Acrosome reaction; Chimeric mutagenesis; Fertilization; Protein protein recognition; Recombinant lysin; Sperm egg interaction

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; FERTILIZATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOLLUSC; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VITELLINE MEMBRANE;

EID: 0033214009     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9411     Document Type: Article

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