The Protease Degrading Sperm Histones Post-Fertilization in Sea Urchin Eggs Is a Nuclear Cathepsin L That Is Further Required for Embryo Development

Violeta Morin; Andrea Sanchez-Rubio; Antoine Aze; Claudio Iribarren; Claire Fayet; Yves Desdevises; Jenaro Garcia-Huidobro; Maria Imschenetzky; Marcia Puchi; Anne-Marie Genevière

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046850

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The Protease Degrading Sperm Histones Post-Fertilization in Sea Urchin Eggs Is a Nuclear Cathepsin L That Is Further Required for Embryo Development

Violeta Morin ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Violeta Morin, Andrea Sanchez-Rubio

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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Andrea Sanchez-Rubio ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Violeta Morin, Andrea Sanchez-Rubio

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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Antoine Aze,

Affiliations Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Banyuls-sur-mer, France, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Banyuls-sur-mer, France
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Claudio Iribarren,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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Claire Fayet,

Affiliations Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Banyuls-sur-mer, France, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Banyuls-sur-mer, France
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Yves Desdevises,

Affiliations Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Banyuls-sur-mer, France, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Banyuls-sur-mer, France
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Jenaro Garcia-Huidobro,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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Maria Imschenetzky,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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Marcia Puchi,

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidad de Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile
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Anne-Marie Genevière

* E-mail: anne-marie.genevière@obs-banyuls.fr

Affiliations Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Banyuls-sur-mer, France, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7232, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Banyuls-sur-mer, France
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The Protease Degrading Sperm Histones Post-Fertilization in Sea Urchin Eggs Is a Nuclear Cathepsin L That Is Further Required for Embryo Development

Violeta Morin,
Andrea Sanchez-Rubio,
Antoine Aze,
Claudio Iribarren,
Claire Fayet,
Yves Desdevises,
Jenaro Garcia-Huidobro,
Maria Imschenetzky,
Marcia Puchi,
Anne-Marie Genevière

Published: November 5, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046850

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