Ovastacin (IMAGE)

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Ovastacin

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A study in the Journal of Cell Biology describes how ovastacin helps egg cells avoid being fertilized by more than one sperm. In this image, ovastacin (red) localizes to secretory granules (green) in the cortex of an unfertilized egg.

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Burkart, A.D., et al. 2012. J. Cell Biol. <A HREF="http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201112094">http://dx.doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201112094</A>.

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