ZP2

Zona pellucida glycoprotein 2 (sperm receptor)
Identifiers
Symbols	ZP2 ; ZPA
External IDs	Template:OMIM5 Template:MGI HomoloGene: 48194
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Zona pellucida glycoprotein 2 (sperm receptor), also known as ZP2, is a human gene.

The zona pellucida is an extracellular matrix that surrounds the oocyte and early embryo. It is composed primarily of three or four glycoproteins with various functions during fertilization and preimplantation development. The protein encoded by this gene is a structural component of the zona pellucida and functions in secondary binding and penetration of acrosome-reacted spermatozoa. The nascent protein contains a N-terminal signal peptide sequence, a conserved ZP domain, a consensus furin cleavage site, and a C-terminal transmembrane domain. It is hypothesized that furin cleavage results in release of the mature protein from the plasma membrane for subsequent incorporation into the zona pellucida matrix. However, the requirement for furin cleavage in this process remains controversial based on mouse studies.

Further reading

• Rankin T, Dean J (2000). "The zona pellucida: using molecular genetics to study the mammalian egg coat". Rev. Reprod. 5 (2): 114–21. PMID 10864856.
• Mori T, Guo MW, Sato E; et al. (2000). "Molecular and immunological approaches to mammalian fertilization". J. Reprod. Immunol. 47 (2): 139–58. PMID 10924747.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Liang LF, Dean J (1993). "Conservation of mammalian secondary sperm receptor genes enables the promoter of the human gene to function in mouse oocytes". Dev. Biol. 156 (2): 399–408. doi:10.1006/dbio.1993.1087. PMID 8385033.
• Loftus BJ, Kim UJ, Sneddon VP; et al. (1999). "Genome duplications and other features in 12 Mb of DNA sequence from human chromosome 16p and 16q". Genomics. 60 (3): 295–308. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5927. PMID 10493829.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Tsubamoto H, Hasegawa A, Nakata Y; et al. (1999). "Expression of recombinant human zona pellucida protein 2 and its binding capacity to spermatozoa". Biol. Reprod. 61 (6): 1649–54. PMID 10570015.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Howes E, Pascall JC, Engel W, Jones R (2002). "Interactions between mouse ZP2 glycoprotein and proacrosin; a mechanism for secondary binding of sperm to the zona pellucida during fertilization". J. Cell. Sci. 114 (Pt 22): 4127–36. PMID 11739644.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Tanii I, Oh-oka T, Yoshinaga K, Toshimori K (2002). "A mouse acrosomal cortical matrix protein, MC41, has ZP2-binding activity and forms a complex with a 75-kDa serine protease". Dev. Biol. 238 (2): 332–41. doi:10.1006/dbio.2001.0380. PMID 11784014.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Kiefer SM, Saling P (2002). "Proteolytic processing of human zona pellucida proteins". Biol. Reprod. 66 (2): 407–14. PMID 11804956.
• Qi H, Williams Z, Wassarman PM (2002). "Secretion and assembly of zona pellucida glycoproteins by growing mouse oocytes microinjected with epitope-tagged cDNAs for mZP2 and mZP3". Mol. Biol. Cell. 13 (2): 530–41. doi:10.1091/mbc.01-09-0440. PMID 11854410.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Zhao M, Gold L, Ginsberg AM; et al. (2002). "Conserved furin cleavage site not essential for secretion and integration of ZP3 into the extracellular egg coat of transgenic mice". Mol. Cell. Biol. 22 (9): 3111–20. PMID 11940668.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Rankin TL, Coleman JS, Epifano O; et al. (2003). "Fertility and taxon-specific sperm binding persist after replacement of mouse sperm receptors with human homologs". Dev. Cell. 5 (1): 33–43. PMID 12852850.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hinsch E, Groeger S, Oehninger S, Hinsch KD (2003). "Localization and functional importance of a conserved zona pellucida 2 protein domain in the human and bovine ovary using monoclonal anti-ZP2 peptide antibodies". Theriogenology. 60 (7): 1331–44. PMID 14511786.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Furlong LI, Harris JD, Vazquez-Levin MH (2006). "Binding of recombinant human proacrosin/acrosin to zona pellucida (ZP) glycoproteins. I. Studies with recombinant human ZPA, ZPB, and ZPC". Fertil. Steril. 83 (6): 1780–90. doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.12.042. PMID 15950651.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Caballero-Campo P, Chirinos M, Fan XJ; et al. (2006). "Biological effects of recombinant human zona pellucida proteins on sperm function". Biol. Reprod. 74 (4): 760–8. doi:10.1095/biolreprod.105.047522. PMID 16407501.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)