Sulfated fucans from the egg jelly of sea urchins
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Laboratório de Tecido Conjuntivo, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho and Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68041, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-590, Brazil, Centro Nacional de Ressonância Nuclear Magnética de Macromoléculas, Departamento de Bioquímica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21941-590, Brazil, and Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington, WA 98250, USA.
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Females of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus differ in the structures of their egg jelly sulfated fucans.
The egg jelly coats of sea urchins contain sulfated fucans which bind to a sperm surface receptor glycoprotein to initiate the signal transduction events resulting in the sperm acrosome reaction. The acrosome reaction is an ion channel regulated exocytosis which is an obligatory event for sperm binding to, and fusion with, the egg. Approximately 90% of individual females of the sea urchin Stron...
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