Analysis of mouse fertilin in wild-type and fertilin β(-/-) sperm: Evidence for C-terminal modification, α/β dimerization, and lack of essential role of fertilin α in sperm-egg fusion

Developmental Biology

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 289-295

  Cho, Chunghee ^a   Ge, Haiyan ^a   Branciforte, Daniel ^a   Primakoff, Paul ^a   Myles, Diana G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAM; Cytoplasmic domain; Fertilin; Fertilization; Heterodimer; MDC; Sperm egg binding and fusion

Indexed keywords

FERTILIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; BOVINAE; CAVIA PORCELLUS; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0034660644     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.2000.9703     Document Type: Article

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