Molecular models for mouse sperm-oocyte binding

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Binding of sperm to egg in the mouse has been proposed to depend primarily on interactions between lectin-like egg-binding proteins on the sperm plasma membrane and complementary carbohydrates on the specialized extracellular matrix of the egg known as the zona pellucida. An alternative model posits that initial sperm-egg binding depends on the interaction of a sperm surface protein with a supramolecular complex...

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