ReviewCurrent topics in developmental biology2018
Egg Coat Proteins Across Metazoan Evolution.
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- Co-Option and Conflict: The Deep Evolutionary History of ZP-Domain Proteins from ECMs to Species Barriers.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- A comprehensive review about sperm-oocyte interactions and key activation factors of fertilization in mammals.The Canadian journal of urology · 2026Review
- Molecular Evolution of theAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Medaka, Oryzias latipes, egg envelopes are created by ovarian-expressed ZP proteins and liver-expressed choriogenins.Zoological letters · 2022Article
- Rapid divergence of a gamete recognition gene promoted macroevolution of Eutheria.Genome biology · 2022Article
- Domain Expansion and Functional Diversification in Vertebrate Reproductive Proteins.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- The Importance of Gene Duplication and Domain Repeat Expansion for the Function and Evolution of Fertilization Proteins.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Review
- Recurrent Duplication and Diversification of Acrosomal Fertilization Proteins in Abalone.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022Article
- Molecular mechanisms and evolution of fertilization proteins.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2021Review
- Zona Pellucida Genes and Proteins: Essential Players in Mammalian Oogenesis and Fertility.Genes · 2021Review
- Proteomics support the threespine stickleback egg coat as a protective oocyte envelope.Molecular reproduction and development · 2021Article
- Molecular Evolutionary Analysis of Nematode Zona Pellucida (ZP) Modules Reveals Disulfide-Bond Reshuffling and Standalone ZP-C Domains.Genome biology and evolution · 2020Article
- ZP4 Is Present in Murine Zona Pellucida and Is Not Responsible for the Specific Gamete Interaction.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2020Article
- Zona pellucida genes and proteins and human fertility.Trends in developmental biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
All animal oocytes are surrounded by a glycoproteinaceous egg coat, a specialized extracellular matrix that serves both structural and species-specific roles during fertilization. Egg coat glycoproteins polymerize into the extracellular matrix of the egg coat using a conserved protein-protein interaction module-the zona pellucida (ZP) domain-common to both vertebrates and invertebrates, suggesting that the basic structural features of egg coats have been conserved across hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Egg coat proteins, as with other proteins involved in reproduction, are frequently found to be rapidly evolving. Given that gamete compatibility must be maintained for the fitness of sexually reproducing organisms, this finding is somewhat paradoxical and suggests a role for adaptive diversification in reproductive protein evolution. Here we review the structure and function of metazoan egg coat proteins, with an emphasis on the potential role their evolution has played in the creation and maintenance of species boundaries.
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