期刊
GLYCOBIOLOGY
卷 11, 期 4, 页码 37R-43R出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/glycob/11.4.37R
关键词
acrosome reaction; fertilization; protein-carbohydrate recognition; sperm-egg interaction; zona pellucida
资金
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD12986] Funding Source: Medline
The process of fertilization begins when sperm contact the outermost egg investment and ends with fusion of the two haploid pronuclei in the egg cytoplasm, Many steps in fertilization involve carbohydrate-based molecular recognition between sperm and egg. Although there is conservation of gamete recognition molecules within vertebrates, their homologues have not get been discovered in echinoderms and ascidians (the invertebrate deuterostomes). In echinoderms, long sulfated polysaccharides act as ligands for sperm receptors, Ascidians employ egg coat glycosides that are recognized by sperm surface glycosidases. Vertebrate egg coats contain zona pellucida (ZP) family glycoproteins, whose carbohydrates bind to sperm receptors, Several candidate sperm receptors For vertebrate ZP proteins have been identified and are discussed here. This brief review focuses on new information concerning fertilization in deuterostomes (the phylogenetic group including echinoderms, ascidians, and vertebrates) and highlights protein-carbohydrate interactions involved in this process.
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