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SUBMITTER: Oulhen N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4133295 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Biochemical and biophysical research communications 20140527 3
Conservation of the cortical granule serine protease during fertilization in echinoderms was tested both functionally in sea stars, and computationally throughout the echinoderm phylum. We find that the inhibitor of serine protease (soybean trypsin inhibitor) effectively blocks proper transition of the sea star fertilization envelope into a protective sperm repellent, whereas inhibitors of the other main types of proteases had no effect. Scanning the transcriptomes of 15 different echinoderm ova ...[more]