Mouse zona pellucida glycoproteins mZP2 and mZP3 undergo carboxy- terminal proteolytic processing in growing oocytes

Biochemistry

Volumn 38, Issue 38, 1999, Pages 12280-12287

  Litscher, Eveline S ^a   Qi, Huayu ^a   Wassarman, Paul M ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN MZP2; GLYCOPROTEIN MZP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; FEMALE; FETUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARBOHYDRATE CONFORMATION; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MESYLATES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; OOCYTES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 0033592427     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi991154y     Document Type: Article

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