Evidence for participation of GCS1 in fertilization of the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: Implication of a common mechanism of sperm-egg fusion in plants and animals

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 451, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 522-528

  Ebchuqin, Eerdundagula ^a   Yokota, Naoto ^a   Yamada, Lixy ^a   Yasuoka, Yuuri ^b   Akasaka, Mari ^a   Arakawa, Mio ^c   Deguchi, Ryusaku ^c   Mori, Toshiyuki ^d   Sawada, Hitoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cnidaria; Egg; Fertilization; Membrane fusion; Sperm

Indexed keywords

GENERATIVE CELL SPECIFIC 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HORMONE;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOMICS; SPERM; TESTIS; ANIMAL; CNIDARIA; DRUG EFFECT; EGG; FERTILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SEA ANEMONE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERMATOZOON;

CNIDARIA; EGG; FERTILIZATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; SPERM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FERTILIZATION; INVERTEBRATE HORMONES; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PLANTS; SEA ANEMONES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84908365418     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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