The function of chaperone proteins in the assemblage of protein complexes involved in gamete adhesion and fusion processes

Reproduction

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Bromfield, Elizabeth G ^a   Nixon, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAM PROTEIN; CALNEXIN; CALRETICULIN; CHAPERONE; CHAPERONIN 60; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90; MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2B; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; GAMETE; LIPID RAFT; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SPERM; SPERMATOGENESIS; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL FUSION; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84874068095     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-12-0316     Document Type: Review

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