Cooperation-based sperm clusters mediate sperm oviduct entry and fertilization

Yongcun Qu; Qi Chen; Shanshan Guo; Chiyuan Ma; Yonggang Lu; Junchao Shi; Shichao Liu; Tong Zhou; Taichi Noda; Jingjing Qian; Liwen Zhang; Xili Zhu; Xiaohua Lei; Yujing Cao; Wei Li; Wei Li; Nicolas Plachta; Martin M. Matzuk; Masahito Ikawa; Enkui Duan; Ying Zhang; Hongmei Wang

doi:10.1007/s13238-021-00825-y

Protein Cell ›› 2021, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (10) : 810 -817. DOI: 10.1007/s13238-021-00825-y

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Cooperation-based sperm clusters mediate sperm oviduct entry and fertilization

Yongcun Qu ¹^,²
, Qi Chen ³
, Shanshan Guo ¹^,²
, Chiyuan Ma ¹
, Yonggang Lu ⁴
, Junchao Shi ³
, Shichao Liu ³
, Tong Zhou ⁵
, Taichi Noda ⁴
, Jingjing Qian ¹^,²
, Liwen Zhang ¹^,²
, Xili Zhu ¹
, Xiaohua Lei ¹
, Yujing Cao ¹
, Wei Li ¹^,⁹
, Wei Li ¹^,⁹
, Nicolas Plachta ⁶
, Martin M. Matzuk ⁷
, Masahito Ikawa ⁴
, Enkui Duan ¹^,⁹^,^†
, Ying Zhang ¹^,⁸^,⁹^,¹⁰^,^†
, Hongmei Wang ¹^,²^,⁹^,^†

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¹. State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

². University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³. Division of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA

⁴. Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan

⁵. Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Reno School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA

⁶. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Singapore, Singapore

⁷. Center for Drug Discovery, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA

⁸. Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

⁹. Institute for Stem Cell and Regeneration, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

¹⁰. The Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Regulation Biology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Cell Biology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China

duane@ioz.ac.cn (E. Duan),

yingzhanglab@gmail.com (Y. Zhang)

wanghm@ioz.ac.cn (H. Wang)

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Yongcun Qu, Qi Chen, Shanshan Guo, Chiyuan Ma, Yonggang Lu, Junchao Shi, Shichao Liu, Tong Zhou, Taichi Noda, Jingjing Qian, Liwen Zhang, Xili Zhu, Xiaohua Lei, Yujing Cao, Wei Li, Wei Li, Nicolas Plachta, Martin M. Matzuk, Masahito Ikawa, Enkui Duan, Ying Zhang, Hongmei Wang. Cooperation-based sperm clusters mediate sperm oviduct entry and fertilization. Protein Cell, 2021, 12(10): 810-817 DOI:10.1007/s13238-021-00825-y

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