Porcine sperm bind to specific 6-sialylated biantennary glycans to form the oviduct reservoir

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Kadirvel, Govindasamy ^a,b   Machado, Sergio A ^b   Korneli, Claudia ^b   Collins, Emily ^b   Miller, Paul ^b   Bess, Kelsey N ^b   Aoki, Kazuhiro ^c   Tiemeyer, Michael ^c   Bovin, Nicolai ^d   Miller, David J ^b  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d SHEMYAKIN OVCHINNIKOV INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Capacitation; Cell adhesion; Glycans; Oviduct; Sialic acid; Sperm; Sperm reservoir

Indexed keywords

6 SIALYLATED LACTOSAMINE; AGGLUTININ; AMINOSUGAR; GLYCAN; SIALOPROTEIN; TRISACCHARIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GALACTOSYL (1,4) FUCOPYRANOSYL (1,3) N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; GALACTOSYL-(1,4)-FUCOPYRANOSYL-(1,3)-N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; LACTOSAMINE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PLANT LECTIN; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; ISOMER; MALE; NONHUMAN; OVIDUCT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESERVOIR; SIALYLATION; SIMBUCUS; SIMBUCUS NIGRA; SPERM; SWINE; ANIMAL; CELL POLARITY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; EPITHELIUM CELL; GLYCOBIOLOGY; ISOMERISM; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON HEAD; SPERMATOZOON MIGRATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

AMINO SUGARS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL POLARITY; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GLYCOMICS; ISOMERISM; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; OVIDUCTS; PLANT LECTINS; POLYSACCHARIDES; SPERM CAPACITATION; SPERM HEAD; SPERM TRANSPORT; SPERMATOZOA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SUS SCROFA; TRISACCHARIDES;

EID: 84877675099     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: 15297268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.112.103879     Document Type: Article

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