Decreased in vitro fertilization efficiencies in the presence of specific cyritestin peptides
Open Access
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Development, Growth & Differentiation
- Vol. 39 (2), 243-247
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-169x.1997.t01-1-00013.x
Abstract
Synthetic peptides corresponding to specific regions of the mouse acrosomal transmembrane protein cyritestin have been used as competitors in in vitro fertilization experiments. One peptide representing a putative egg‐receptor binding site within the disintegrin domain of cyritestin lowered the fertilization rate to 30% of the normal value.Keywords
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