GPI-Anchored Aminopeptidase Is Involved in the Acrosome Reaction in Sperm of the Mussel Mytilus edulis

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 465-471

  Togo, Tatsuru ^a   Morisawa, Masaaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fertilization; GPI anchored protein; Tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

7,12 DIMETHYLBENZ[A]ANTHRACENE; AMINOPEPTIDASE; ANTIBODY; BESTATIN; ENZYME ACTIVATOR; GENISTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; HYDROLASE; PHENYLALANINE 4 METHYLCOUMARYL 7 AMIDE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 4,5 BISPHOSPHATE PHOSPHODIESTERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUSSEL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE SRC; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERM;

9,10-DIMETHYL-1,2-BENZANTHRACENE; ACROSOME REACTION; AMINOPEPTIDASES; ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CARCINOGENS; COUMARINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; GENISTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; GROWTH INHIBITORS; LEUCINE; MALE; OOCYTES; PEPTIDES; PHENYLALANINE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SPERMATOZOA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

MYTILUS; MYTILUS EDULIS;

EID: 1542346853     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20037     Document Type: Article

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