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  • Title: Identification and partial characterization of sperm receptor associated with the newly formed fertilization envelope from sea urchin eggs.
    Author: Ruiz-Bravo N, Earles D, Lennarz WJ.
    Journal: Dev Biol; 1986 Sep; 117(1):204-8. PubMed ID: 3017793.
    Abstract:
    Prior studies from this laboratory have identified a proteoglycan-like component of high molecular weight from the surface of the egg of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus that serves as a receptor for sperm. In the present study, a glycoconjugate has been isolated from uncrosslinked fertilization envelopes prepared from eggs activated by treatment with ionophore. Based on its high molecular weight (greater than 5 X 10(6)) and its ability to inhibit fertilization by acrosome-reacted sperm, this glycoconjugate has the properties of the previously described sperm receptor. Components of the fertilization envelope of lower molecular weight (less than 10(6)) showed little or no ability to inhibit fertilization.
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