Processing, localization and binding activity of zonadhesin suggest a function in sperm adhesion to the zona pellucida during exocytosis of the acrosome

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 375, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 477-488

  Bi, Ming ^a   Hickox, John R ^a   Winfrey, Virginia P ^b   Olson, Gary E ^b   Hardy, Daniel M ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrosome; Adhesion; Fertilization; Processing; Spermatozoa; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS;

BINDING ACTIVITY;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ANTIGEN; ASPARTIC ACID; DETERGENT; MEPRIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; MUCIN; PHOSPHOTYROSINE; POLYMER; POLYPEPTIDE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P105; PROTEIN P300; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONADHESIN;

ACROSOME; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; EPIDIDYMIS; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; EXTRACTION; GAMETE; GLYCOSYLATION; MALE; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE DAMAGE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPERM; SPERMATID; SPERMATOZOON; SWINE; TESTIS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL ADHESION; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; PROTEIN BINDING; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; SWINE; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0142231558     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20030753     Document Type: Article

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