Structural highlights
Function
[ELYS_HALFU] Dissolves the egg vitelline layer nonenzymatically during fertilization. It creates a hole of about 3 mu-m in diameter through which the sperm pass.
Evolutionary Conservation
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Publication Abstract from PubMed
Abalone sperm lysin is a 16 kDa acrosomal protein used by sperm to create a hole in the egg vitelline envelope. Lysins from seven California abalone exhibit species-specificity in binding to their egg receptor, and range in sequence identity from 63 % to 90 %. The crystal structure of the sperm lysin dimer from Haliotis fulgens (green abalone) has been determined to 1.71 A by multiple isomorphous replacement. Comparisons with the structure of the lysin dimer from Haliotis rufescens (red abalone) reveal a similar overall fold and conservation of features contributing to lysin's amphipathic character. The two structures do, however, exhibit differences in surface residues and electrostatics. A large clustering of non-conserved surface residues around the waist and clefts of the dimer, and differences in charged residues around these regions, indicate areas of the molecule which may be involved in species-specific egg recognition.
The high resolution crystal structure of green abalone sperm lysin: implications for species-specific binding of the egg receptor.,Kresge N, Vacquier VD, Stout CD J Mol Biol. 2000 Mar 10;296(5):1225-34. PMID:10698629[1]
From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
References
- ↑ Kresge N, Vacquier VD, Stout CD. The high resolution crystal structure of green abalone sperm lysin: implications for species-specific binding of the egg receptor. J Mol Biol. 2000 Mar 10;296(5):1225-34. PMID:10698629 doi:10.1006/jmbi.2000.3533
