Immunoglobulins against gp273, the ligand for sperm-egg interaction in the mollusc bivalve Unio elongatulus, are directed against charged O-linked oligosaccharide chains bearing a Lewis-like structure and interact with epitopes of the human zona pellucida

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 226-234

  Focarelli, Riccardo ^a   Capone, Antonietta ^a   Ermini, Leonardo ^a   Del Buono, Francesca ^a   La Sala, Giovanni Battista ^b   Balasini, Marcella ^b   Rosati, Floriana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fertilization; Interaction; Mollusc; O glycans; Species specific; Sperm egg

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; FUCOSE; GLYCAN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN 273; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; LIGAND; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ZP3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; VITELLINE MEMBRANE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; BIVALVIA; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; OLIGOSACCHARIDES; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA; UNIO;

EID: 0037297720     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.10241     Document Type: Article

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