New insights into the molecular mechanisms of sperm-egg interaction

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1805-1823

  Nixon, B ^a   Aitken, R J ^a,b   McLaughlin, E A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capacitation; Fertilisation; Gamete; Oocyte; Spermatozoa

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; CRISP 1 PROTEIN; EGG PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTEGRIN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE ERP57; PROTEIN; PROTEIN IZUMO; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SPERM LYSOZYME LIKE PROTEIN; TETRASPANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL INTERACTION; EPIDIDYMIS; FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LIPID RAFT; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REVIEW; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OOCYTES; PROTEINS; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM MATURATION; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34447635697     PISSN: 1420682X     EISSN: 15691632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-007-6552-x     Document Type: Review

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