Species-specific gamete recognition initiates fusion-driving trimer formation by conserved fusogen HAP2
HAP2 is essential for gamete fusion during fertilization and is conserved among eukaryotes. Here the authors show that species-specific adhesion between Chlamydomonas plus and minus gametes initiates HAP2 to undergo a fusogenic conformational change into homotrimers via a molecular mechanism akin to...
Main Authors: | Jun Zhang, Jennifer F. Pinello, Ignacio Fernández, Eduard Baquero, Juliette Fedry, Félix A. Rey, William J. Snell |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-07-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24613-8 |
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