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Nature 1984 Aug 01;3105976:414-5. doi: 10.1038/310414a0.
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Fertilization increases the polyphosphoinositide content of sea urchin eggs.

Turner PR , Sheetz MP , Jaffe LA .


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Fertilization of the sea urchin egg stimulates a wave of exocytosis of cortical vesicles, but the mechanism by which fertilization regulates this secretion is not fully understood. We describe here experiments which suggest that polyphosphoinositide metabolism could be a factor in this regulation. We find that the cortical vesicle exocytosis in the egg of Strongylocentrotus purpuratus is preceded by a 40% increase in its content of triphosphoinositide (TPI) and a 22% increase of diphosphoinositide (DPI).

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Genes referenced: LOC100887844 tfdp1