Acrosomal swelling and membrane docking are required for hybrid vesicle formation during the human sperm acrosome reaction

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 396-405

  Zanetti, Natalia ^a   Mayorga, Luis S ^a,b  

^a Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Gamete biology; Membrane docking; Membrane fusion; Regulated exocytosis; Secretory granules; SNARE; Sperm

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN; SNARE PROTEIN; STREPTOLYSIN O; TETANUS TOXIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL SECRETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEMBRANE FORMATION; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECRETORY GRANULE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ACROSOME; ACROSOME REACTION; ADULT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHELATING AGENTS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; IONOPHORES; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; PERMEABILITY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SNARE PROTEINS; SPERMATOZOA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSPORT VESICLES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 68049126532     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.109.076166     Document Type: Article

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