Localization and roles in fertilization of sperm proteasomes in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 271-276

  Sawada, Hitoshi ^a   Takahashi, Youko ^a   Fujino, Junko ^a   Flores, Sandra Y ^a   Yokosawa, Hideyoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Fertilization; Proteasome; Sperm; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PROTEASOME; UBIQUITIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FERTILIZATION; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SPAWNING; SPERMATOZOON PENETRATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLIC ACIDS; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; DETERGENTS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; LEUPEPTINS; MALE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; SPERMATOZOA; UROCHORDATA;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0036255128     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10089     Document Type: Article

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