… suggested that its protein-linked glycans could be responsible for initial sperm-egg binding
( … has led to the development of alternate molecular models for initial sperm-egg binding. …

… sperm–egg binding were hampered … –egg binding. It was hoped that such experiments
would provide insight into the carbohydrate-binding specificity of putative lectin-like egg-binding …

… collected over the past fifty years has confirmed that this interaction relies primarily on the
recognition of carbohydrate sequences presented on the ZP by lectin-like egg binding proteins …

… have been implicated in sperm-oocyte interaction, we tested whether the functional
classification of ADAMs, based on specificity for integrin αあるふぁ 9 β 1 , applies to sperm-egg binding. We …

… Alternative integrins may be involved in sperm–egg binding … was not essential for sperm–egg
binding and fusion. Oocyte-… are essential for sperm–egg binding/fusion, and thus, egg …

… of sperm-egg binding, using PVM … -egg binding assay could be useful for predicting
subfertility of males. To further elucidate the relationship between the in vitro sperm-egg binding …

… whose interaction mediates sperm-egg binding. Here we show that … This interaction is required
for sperm-egg binding because … -like capacity during sperm-egg binding by forming stable …

… Although the above results suggest that the EGF domains do not contribute to competitive
inhibition of sperm-egg binding, we directly tested the ability of RGD peptide to competitively …

… -egg binding leading to fusion via direct association of the integrin αあるふぁ6 with sperm. Mol. Reprod.
… However, sperm-egg binding and fusion did not appear to be perturbed by this antibody (…

… The zona-free sperm–egg binding and fusion assay demonstrated that antibody against …
Among the most critical observations of this study was a 100% inhibition of sperm–egg binding …