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Male mice deficient for germ-cell cyritestin are infertile.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Dec 1999
Shamsadin R, Adham I M, Nayernia K, Heinlein U A, Oberwinkler H, Engel W
Abstract excerpt
Cyritestin is a membrane-anchored sperm protein belonging to the ADAM (f1.gif" BORDER="0"> f2.gif" BORDER="0">isintegrin and f1.gif" BORDER="0"> f3.gif" BORDER="0">etalloprotease) family of proteins, which are proposed to be involved in cell-cell adhesion through binding to integrin receptors. Several lines of evidence support a role of cyritestin and other members of this protein family in the fusion of sperm...
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