Glycodelin-A interacts with fucosyltransferase on human sperm plasma membrane to inhibit spermatozoa-zona pellucida binding

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 33-44

  Chiu, Philip C N ^a   Chung, Man Kin ^a   Koistinen, Riitta ^b   Koistinen, Hannu ^b   Seppala, Markku ^b   Ho, Pak Chung ^a   Ng, Ernest H Y ^a   Lee, Kai Fai ^a   Yeung, William S B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fucosyltransferase; Glycodelin; Spermatozoa; Zona pellucida

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ANTIBODY; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PLACENTA PROTEIN 14; RECEPTOR;

ACROSOME; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SPERM; SPERMATOZOON; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANTIBODIES; CELL MEMBRANE; FEMALE; FUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MALE; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

EID: 33846828527     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.03258     Document Type: Article

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