...U. A. Urch; H. Patel ABSTRACT Boar sperm acrosin is an acrosomal protease with trypsin-like specificity, and it functions in fertilization by assisting sperm passage through the zona pellucida by limited hydrolysis of this extracellular matrix. In addition to a proteolytic active site domain...

...Jan Tesarik; Josef Drahorad; Jacques Testart; Carmen Mendoza ABSTRACT Evidence has accumulated suggesting multiple roles of acrosin in fertilization, including its participation in early steps of gamete recognition and binding. However, the implication of acrosin in many of these processes...