Purification and multimer formation of allurin, a sperm chemoattractant from Xenopus laevis egg jelly

Molecular Reproduction and Development

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 527-536

  Sugiyama, Hitoshi ^a   Burnett, Lindsey ^b   Xiang, Xueyu ^b   Olson, John ^b   Willis, Shaun ^b   Miao, Amy ^b   Akema, Tatsuo ^a   Bieber, Allan L ^b   Chandler, Douglas E ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLURIN; BINDING PROTEIN; CHEMOATTRACTANT; MERCAPTOETHANOL; THIOL GROUP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALKYLATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISULFIDE BOND; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERM; WESTERN BLOTTING; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS; CHEMOTAXIS; EGG PROTEINS; FEMALE; MALE; OOCYTES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SPERMATOZOA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 65949101224     PISSN: 1040452X     EISSN: 10982795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mrd.20969     Document Type: Article

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