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ECB-ART-37741
Glycoconj J 2000 Jan 01;173 -4:205-14. doi: 10.1023/a:1026589223811.
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Co-localization of receptor and transducer proteins in the glycosphingolipid-enriched, low density, detergent-insoluble membrane fraction of sea urchin sperm.

Ohta K , Sato C , Matsuda T , Toriyama M , Vacquier VD , Lennarz WJ , Kitajima K .


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The low density, detergent-insoluble membrane fraction (LD-DIM), where gangliosides are likely to be highly enriched, was prepared from sperm of two sea urchin species, Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus and Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Immunoblotting showed the presence in the LD-DIM of two receptors for egg ligands, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein, and four proteins which may be involved in signal transduction. Co-immunoprecipitation revealed that at least three proteins, the speract receptor, the 63kDa GPI-anchored protein and the alpha subunit of a heterotrimeric Gs protein, are localized in the LD-DIM. This suggests that the LD-DIM fraction may be a membrane microdomain for speract-speract receptor interaction, as well as the subsequent signal transduction pathway involved in induction of sperm respiration, motility and possibly the acrosome reaction.

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844 LOC576642 LOC762939
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References [+] :
Bookbinder, Identification of sea urchin sperm adenylate cyclase. 1990, Pubmed, Echinobase