@article{de234daeedff4d65938e9cb20b09ec44,
title = "MAIA, Fc receptor–like 3, supersedes JUNO as IZUMO1 receptor during human fertilization",
abstract = "Gamete fusion is a critical event of mammalian fertilization. A random one-bead one-compound combinatorial peptide library represented synthetic human egg mimics and identified a previously unidentified ligand as Fc receptor-like 3, named MAIA after the mythological goddess intertwined with JUNO. This immunoglobulin super family receptor was expressed on human oolemma and played a major role during sperm-egg adhesion and fusion. MAIA forms a highly stable interaction with the known IZUMO1/JUNO sperm-egg complex, permitting specific gamete fusion. The complexity of the MAIA isotype may offer a cryptic sexual selection mechanism to avoid genetic incompatibility and achieve favorable fitness outcomes.",
author = "Jana Vondrakova and Michaela Frolikova and Lukas Ded and Jiri Cerny and Pavla Postlerova and Veronika Palenikova and Ondrej Simonik and Zuzana Nahacka and Krystof Basus and Eliska Valaskova and Radek Machan and Allan Pacey and Zuzana Holubcova and Pavel Koubek and Zuzana Ezrova and Soojin Park and Ruiwu Liu and Raghavendran Partha and Nathan Clark and Jiri Neuzil and Masahito Ikawa and Kent Erickson and Lam, {Kit S} and Harry Moore and Katerina Komrskova",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).",
year = "2022",
month = sep,
day = "9",
doi = "10.1126/sciadv.abn0047",
language = "English",
volume = "8",
journal = "Science Advances",
issn = "2375-2548",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science (A A A S)",
number = "36",
}