Vitellogenin C-terminal fragments participate in fertilization as egg-coat binding partners of sperm trypsin-like proteases in the ascidian Halocynthia roretzi

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 392, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 479-484

  Akasaka, Mari ^a   Harada, Yoshito ^a   Sawada, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascidian; Fertilization; Lipid transfer protein; Sperm protease; Vitelline coat; Vitellogenin

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GENOMIC DNA; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; POLYADENYLATED RNA; PROTEINASE; TRYPSIN; VITELLOGENIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ASCIDIACEA; EGG; FERTILIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPERM; VITELLOGENESIS;

ACROSIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME PRECURSORS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OVUM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SPERMATOZOA; UROCHORDATA; VITELLOGENINS;

ASCIDIA; HALOCYNTHIA RORETZI;

EID: 76749115226     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.01.006     Document Type: Article

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