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Rendezvin: An essential gene encoding independent, differentially secreted egg proteins that organize the fertilization envelope proteome after self-association.

ABSTRACT: Preventing polyspermy during animal fertilization relies on modifications to the egg's extracellular matrix. On fertilization in sea urchins, the contents of cortical granules are secreted and rapidly assemble into the egg's extracellular vitelline layer, forming the fertilization envelope, a proteinaceous structure that protects the zygote from subsequent sperm. Here, we document rendezvin, a gene whose transcript is differentially spliced to yield proteins destined for either cortical granules or the vitelline layer. These distinctly trafficked variants reunite after cortical granule secretion at fertilization. Together, they help coordinate assembly of the functional fertilization envelope, whose proteome is now defined in full.

SUBMITTER: Wong JL

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1679687 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rendezvin: An essential gene encoding independent, differentially secreted egg proteins that organize the fertilization envelope proteome after self-association.

Wong Julian L JL Wessel Gary M GM

Molecular biology of the cell 20060927 12

Preventing polyspermy during animal fertilization relies on modifications to the egg's extracellular matrix. On fertilization in sea urchins, the contents of cortical granules are secreted and rapidly assemble into the egg's extracellular vitelline layer, forming the fertilization envelope, a proteinaceous structure that protects the zygote from subsequent sperm. Here, we document rendezvin, a gene whose transcript is differentially spliced to yield proteins destined for either cortical granules ...[more]

PMID: 17005910

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Rendezvin: An essential gene encoding independent, differentially secreted egg proteins that organize the fertilization envelope proteome after self-association.

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Rendezvin: An essential gene encoding independent, differentially secreted egg proteins that organize the fertilization envelope proteome after self-association.

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