Identification and disruption of sperm-specific angiotensin converting enzyme-3 (ACE3) in mouse.

BACKGROUND: IZUMO1 is the only sperm protein which is proven to be essential for sperm-egg fusion. However, the IZUMO1 is a structurally simple protein with single Ig domain and seems not to include either a "fusogenic peptide" or a fusion machinery domain. This led us to assume the existe...

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Main Authors: Naokazu Inoue, Tatsuya Kasahara, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2858660?pdf=render