Network model predicts that CatSper is the main Ca2+ channel in the regulation of sea urchin sperm motility

Abstract Spermatozoa sea urchin swimming behaviour is regulated by small peptides from the egg outer envelope. Speract, such a peptide, after binding to its receptor in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus sperm flagella, triggers a signaling pathway that culminates with a train of intracellular calcium os...

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Main Authors: Jesús Espinal-Enríquez, Daniel Alejandro Priego-Espinosa, Alberto Darszon, Carmen Beltrán, Gustavo Martínez-Mekler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03857-9