None of the integrins known to be present on the mouse egg or to be ADAM receptors are essential for sperm-egg binding and fusion

Developmental Biology

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 226-237

  He, Zhi Yong ^a   Brakebusch, Cord ^b   Fässler, Reinhard ^c   Kreidberg, Jordan A ^d   Primakoff, Paul ^e   Myles, Diana G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADAMs; Integrin; Membrane fusion; Null mutation; Sperm egg binding

Indexed keywords

ALPHA5 INTEGRIN; BETA1 INTEGRIN; BETA3 INTEGRIN; INTEGRIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SPERM; WILD TYPE;

EID: 0037442567     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-1606(02)00043-X     Document Type: Article

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