Zona pellucida promoters

Millar, S. E., Lader, E., Liang, L-F., and Dean, J. (1991). Oocyte-specific factors bind a conserved upstream sequence required for mouse zona pellucida promoter activity. Mol. Cell. Biol. 11 6197-6204. 

Herman, H.M., Tombes, R.M., First, N.L., and Babcock, D.F. (1989). An adhesion-associated agonist from the zona pellucida activates G protein-promoted elevations of internal Ca and pH that mediate mammalian sperm acrosomal exocytosis. Dev. Biol, 735 133-146. 

Van Duin VM, Polman JEM, De Breet ITM, Van Ginneken K, Bunschoten H, Grootenhuis A, Brindle J, Aitken RJ. 1994. Recombinant human zona pellucida protein ZP3 produced by Chinese hamster ovary cells induces the human sperm acrosome reaction and promotes sperm-egg fusion. Biol Reprod 51 607-617. 

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