Izumo sperm-egg fusion protein 1 (Sperm-specific protein izumo) is encoded in humans by the IZUMO1 gene. In mammalian fertilisation, IZUMO1 binds to its egg receptor counterpart, Juno, to facilitate recognition and fusion of the gametes.
Izumo sperm-egg fusion protein 1 (Sperm-specific protein izumo) is encoded in humans by the IZUMO1 gene. In mammalian fertilisation, IZUMO1 binds to its egg receptor counterpart, Juno, to facilitate recognition and fusion of the gametes.
==Function==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).