Sentences with phrase «sex cell fusion»
Prior results from Snell and his collaborators, as well as other research groups, indicated that HAP2 is necessary for sex cell fusion in the organisms that possess the protein.
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«New link found between sex and viruses: A protein required for sperm - egg fusion is identical to a protein viruses use to invade host cells.»
If HAP2 functioned like a viral fusion protein, Snell reasoned, then disrupting HAP2's fusion loop should block its ability to fuse sex cells.
The sex cells were able to stick together — a process that depends on other proteins — but they were not able to complete the final fusion of their cell membranes.
«Developing a vaccine that blocks the fusion of Plasmodium sex cells would be a huge step forward,» Snell said, noting that Plasmodium has a complex life cycle that depends on both mosquito and human hosts.
«Sexual reproduction does not require males and females, all it requires is the fusion of sex cells from two different mating types.»