Fertilization Defects in Sperm from Mice Lacking Fertilin β

β2-Microglobulin deficient mice lack CD4−8+ cytolytic T cells

1990 • 997 citations

Repetitive calcium transients and the role of calcium in exocytosis and cell cycle activation in the mouse egg

1992 • 693 citations

A potential fusion peptide and an integrin ligand domain in a protein active in sperm–egg fusion

1992 • 680 citations

Kuzbanian Controls Proteolytic Processing of Notch and Mediates Lateral Inhibition during Drosophila and Vertebrate Neurogenesis

1997 • 516 citations

Mouse egg integrin α6β1functions as a sperm receptor

1995 • 472 citations

ADAM, a Widely Distributed and Developmentally Regulated Gene Family Encoding Membrane Proteins with A̱Ḏisintegrin A̱nd M̱etalloprotease Domain

1995 • 406 citations

Methods for assessing sperm motility, morphology, and counts in the rat, rabbit, and dog: A consensus report

1996 • 388 citations

Identification and purification of a sperm surface protein with a potential role in sperm-egg membrane fusion.

1987 • 368 citations

Metalloprotease-Disintegrins: Links to Cell Adhesion and Cleavage of TNFα and Notch

1997 • 363 citations

KUZ, a Conserved Metalloprotease-Disintegrin Protein with Two Roles in Drosophila Neurogenesis

1996 • 331 citations

Targeted Mutations in Cell Adhesion Genes: What Have We Learned from Them?

1996 • 295 citations

Sperm Transport and Motility in the Mouse Oviduct: Observations in Situ1

1987 • 284 citations

Identification of a binding site in the disintegrin domain of fertilin required for sperm-egg fusion.

1994 • 241 citations

The Molecules of Mammalian Fertilization

1996 • 239 citations

A Role for the Disintegrin Domain of Cyritestin, a Sperm Surface Protein Belonging to the ADAM Family, in Mouse Sperm–Egg Plasma Membrane Adhesion and Fusion

1997 • 235 citations

The precursor region of a protein active in sperm-egg fusion contains a metalloprotease and a disintegrin domain: structural, functional, and evolutionary implications.

1993 • 182 citations

Why did the Sperm Cross the Cumulus? To Get to the Oocyte. Functions of the Sperm Surface Proteins PH-20 and Fertilin in Arriving at, and Fusing With, the Egg1

1997 • 171 citations

Evidence that proteolysis of the surface is an initial step in the mechanism of formation of sperm cell surface domains.

1990 • 170 citations

Evidence for Distinct Serine Protease Activities with a Potential Role in Processing the Sperm Protein Fertilin

1997 • 113 citations

Motility characteristics of sperm from the uterus and oviducts of female mice after mating to congenic males differing in sperm transport and fertility

1986 • 55 citations

Decreased in vitro fertilization efficiencies in the presence of specific cyritestin peptides

1997 • 54 citations

A model for sperm-egg binding and fusion based on ADAMs and integrins

1997 • 48 citations

Genomic organization of the mouse fertilin β gene that encodes an ADAM family protein active in sperm-egg fusion

1997 • 41 citations