ADAM7

Required for normal male fertility via maintenance of epithelial cell morphology in the caput epididymis and subsequently correct epididymis lumen structure required for sperm development (By similarity). Plays a role in sperm motility, flagella morphology and tyrosine phosphorylation during sperm capacitance (By similarity). Plays a role in normal expression levels of HSPA5, ITM2B and ADAM2 in sperm both prior to and post-capacitation (By similarity). This is a non catalytic metalloprotease-like protein (By similarity)..

Function from UniProtKB (Q9H2U9), read 2026-09-23. CC BY 4.0.