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Mosaicism in organisation of concanavalin A receptors on surface membrane of mouse egg

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PLANT lectins have proved to be useful probes of the surface properties of a variety of cells and membranes, providing data on the relative mobility of intramembranous macro-molecules in different conditions1 and on the organisation of oligosaccharides on the cell surface. We report here the use of fluorescent concanavalin A (con A) as a probe to analyse the surface properties of the unfertilised and fertilised mouse egg. Similar experiments were carried out independently at both Cambridge and Birmingham and the results are combined.

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  1. Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3DY, UK

    MARTIN H. JOHNSON, DEBBIE EAGER & AUDREY MUGGLETON-HARRIS

  2. Departments of Anatomy and Zoology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TJ, UK

    HELEN M. GRAVE

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JOHNSON, M., EAGER, D., MUGGLETON-HARRIS, A. et al. Mosaicism in organisation of concanavalin A receptors on surface membrane of mouse egg. Nature 257, 321–322 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257321a0

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