Mouse sperm undergo GPI-anchored protein release associated with lipid raft reorganization and acrosome reaction to acquire fertility

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 124, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 2573-2581

  Watanabe, Hitomi ^a   Kondoh, Gen ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acrosome reaction; Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE); GM1; GPI anchored protein; Lipid raft; Sperm

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EJACULATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LIPID RAFT; LIPID RAFT REORGANIZATION; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GLYCOSYLPHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; OVUM; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 79961132250     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.086967     Document Type: Article

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