Cellular mechanisms of the swimming behaviour of sperms

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp
• Subject Area: Biophysics
• Term: from 2000 to 2010
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5283040

• Final Report Year: 2010

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Publications

• (2003) "A sperm-activating peptide controls a cGMP-signaling pathway in starfish sperm". Dev. Biol. 260,314-324
  Matsumoto, M., Solzin, J., Helbig, A., Hagen, V., Ueno, S.-I., Kawase, O., Maruyama, Y., Ogiso, M., Godde, M., Minakata, H., Kaupp, U.B., Hoshi, M., and Weyand, I.
  
• (2003) "The signal flow and motor response controling Chemotaxis of sea urchin sperm". Nature Cell Biology 5, 109-117
  Kaupp, U.B., Solzin, J., Hildebrand, E., Brown, J.E., Helbig, A., Hagen, V., Beyermann, M., Pampaloni, F., Weyand, I.
  
• (2005) "Ca2+ spikes in the flagellum control chemotactic behavior of sperm". EMBOJ. 24, 2741-2752
  Böhmer, M., Van, Q., Weyand, I., Hagen, V., Beyermann, M., Matsumoto, M., Hoshi, M., Hildebrand, E., and Kaupp, U.B.
  
• (2006) "A K+-selective cGMP-galed ion channel controls chemosensation of sperm". Nature Cell Biology 8, 1149-1154
  Strünker, T., Weyand, I., Bönigk, W., Van, Q., Loogen, A., Brown, I.E., Kashikar, N., Hagen, V., Krause, E., and Kaupp, U.B.
  
• (2006) "Sperm Chemotaxis in marine invertebrates - molecules and mechanisms". J. Cell. Physiol 208, 487-494
  Kaupp, U.B., Hildebrand, E., and Weyand, I.
  
• (2007) "Der chemische Lockruf der Eizelle". Biospektrum 13, 146-149
  Kaupp, U.B.
  
• (2008) "Mechanisms of sperm Chemotaxis". Ann. Rev Physiol. 70,93-117
  Kaupp, U.B., Kashikar, N., and Weyand, I.
  
• (2009) "An atypical CNG channel activated by a single cGMP molecule controls sperm Chemotaxis". Sci. Signal 2, ra68
  Bönigk, W., Loogen, A., Seifert, R., Kashikar, N., Klemm, C , Krause, E., Hagen, V., Kremmer, E., Strünker, T., and Kaupp, U.B.
  
• (2010) "Cooperative and uncooperative cyclicnucleotide-gated ion channels". Trends Biochem Sci. [Epub ahead of print]
  Cukkemane, A., Seifert, R., and Kaupp, U.B.