Amino acid transport in the unfertilized and fertilized mouse egg
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Bioscientifica in Reproduction
- Vol. 56 (1) , 223-231
- https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0560223
Abstract
The transport of methionine into unfertilized and fertilized mouse eggs appears to involve active transport mechanisms with similar Vmax, Km, substrate specificity and independence from Na+. An exchange diffusion system with a similar amino acid specificity to the uptake system was also found in both types of egg. An estimate of 6.5 fmol [femtomole] was made for the size of the total internal pool of exchangeable amino acids.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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