Katanin promotes breakage by extracting tubulin subunits from the wall of the microtubule (also releases microtubules from MTOCs). 

 

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MMP2 is a protein that digests extracellular matrices (such as the zona) and may be responsible for digesting a pathway to the oocyte Acrosin bind secondarily to the zona, keeping the sperm in the channel it creates

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The acrosome reaction, exposes the inner acrosomal membrane to the outside. The junction between this inner acrosomal membrane and the sperm cell membrane is called the equatorial region, and this is where membrane fusion between sperm and egg begins

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Gamete fusion involve proteins: Izumo, originally in the acrosomal membrane Juno, an oocyte membrane protein

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Mutations in either Juno or Izumo block fertilization

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Slow Block to polyspermy

When the cortical granules fuse with the egg cell membrane, they release protein-digesting enzymes that modify the zona pellucida proteins such that they can no longer bind sperm