Ascidian sperm activating and attracting factor: Importance of sulfate groups for the activities and implication of its putative receptor

FEBS Letters

Volumn 582, Issue 23-24, 2008, Pages 3429-3433

  Yoshida, Manabu ^a   Shiba, Kogiku ^a   Yoshida, Kaoru ^b   Tsuchikawa, Hiroshi ^c   Ootou, Ouichirou ^c   Oishi, Toru ^c   Murata, Michio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOIN UNIVERSITY OF YOKOHAMA   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Chemoattractant; Fertilization; Sperm chemotaxis; Sulfated polyhydroxysterol

Indexed keywords

CHEMOATTRACTANT; POLYHYDROXYSTEROL,3ALPHA,4BETA,7ALPHA,26 TETRAHYDROXY 5 ALPHA CHOLESTANE 3,26 DISULFATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; BINDING SITE; BIOTINYLATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROLYSIS; ISOMERISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERM; SULFATION;

ANIMALS; CHEMOTAXIS; CHOLESTANOLS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; QUARTZ; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SPERMATOZOA; STEREOISOMERISM; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SULFURIC ACID ESTERS;

ASCIDIA; CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 53049092876     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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