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The intensive studies on soluble factors of egg jelly of sea urchins stimulate the respiration and motility of sea urchin spermatozoa have been performed independently by two research groups. As the results, the factors responsible for those were elucidated to be oligopeptides (1–3). One of the peptides isolated from the egg jelly of the sea urchin Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus had the following sequence: Gly-Phe-Asp-Leu-Asn-Gly-Gly-Gly- Val-Gly (3). Recently, the same peptide was found in the egg jelly of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (4).
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Suzuki, N., Isaka, S. (1983). Respiratory Stimulation of Sea Urchin Spermatozoa in a Synthetic Jelly Peptide and the Fragments. In: André, J. (eds) The Sperm Cell. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7675-7_12
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