Molecular dissection of IZUMO1, a sperm protein essential for sperm-egg fusion

Development (Cambridge)

Volumn 140, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 3221-3229

  Inoue, Naokazu ^a,b   Hamada, Daizo ^c   Kamikubo, Hironari ^d   Hirata, Kunio ^e   Kataoka, Mikio ^d   Yamamoto, Masaki ^e   Ikawa, Masahito ^a   Okabe, Masaru ^a   Hagihara, Yoshihisa ^f  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e RIKEN   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

IZUMO1; Membrane fusion; Sperm egg fusion

Indexed keywords

CD9 ANTIGEN; DIMER; IZUMO1 PROTEIN; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL STRAIN COS7; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; IN VITRO STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SEDIMENTATION; SPERMATOZOON; SURFACE PROPERTY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

IZUMO1; MEMBRANE FUSION; SPERM-EGG FUSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD9; BINDING SITES; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS;

EID: 84880260638     PISSN: 09501991     EISSN: 14779129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/dev.094854     Document Type: Article

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