The extracellular zona pellucida surrounds ovulated eggs and mediates gamete recognition
that is essential for mammalian fertilization. Zonae matrices contain three (mouse) or four …

All vertebrate eggs have extracellular matrices, referred to as the zona pellucida in Mus
musculus and the vitelline envelope in Xenopus laevis. The mouse zona, composed of three …

Until now, there has been relatively little information available about how the mammalian
egg extracellular coat, the zona pellucida (ZP), assembles during oogenesis. Recently, two …

A translucent matrix termed the zona pellucida (ZP) surrounds the mammalian oocyte. It
plays a critical role in fertilization by acting as a" docking site" for binding of spermatozoa …

The extracellular matrix surrounding vertebrate oocytes is called the zona pellucida in
mammals and perivitelline membrane (pvm) in birds. We have analyzed this structure in …

The mouse zona pellucida is composed of three sulfated glycoproteins, encoded by the
oocyte genome, that have important biological functions in preimplantation development …

Perinatally, oocytes within the mouse ovary become surrounded by a layer of flattened
granulosa cells and form primordial follicles. The subsequent accretion of the zona pellucida …

The zona pellucida (ZP) is an extracellular coat synthesized and secreted by the oocyte
during follicular development and surrounding the plasma membrane of mammalian eggs …

Mammalian fertilisation begins when sperm interacts with the egg zona pellucida (ZP),
whose ZP1 subunit is important for fertility by covalently cross-linking ZP filaments into a …

Zona Pellucida (ZP) domains have been found in a wide variety of extracellular proteins, in
which they play essential role for polymerization. They are shared by the ZP proteins, which …