Induction of the acrosome reaction in human spermatozoa by a fraction of human follicular fluid

Wiley - Tập 14 Số 2 - Trang 107-121 - 1986
Susan S. Suárez1, Don P. Wolf2, Stanley Meizel1
1Department of Human Anatomy, University of California School of Medicine, Davis
2Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Texas School of Medicine, Houston

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AbstractHuman ejaculated spermatozoa were washed through a Percoll gradient, preincubated for 10 hr in a defined medium containing serum albumin, and then induced to undergo rapid acrosome reactions by addition of human follicular fluid or a Sephadex G‐75 column fraction of the fluid. Induction by follicular fluid did not occur when the spermatozoa were preincubated for only 0 or 5 hr. The reactions were detected by indirect immunofluorescence using a monoclonal antibody directed against the human sperm acrosomal region. The percentage of acrosomal loss counted by transmission electron microscopy agreed with that counted by immunofluorescence. The apparent molecular weight of the Sephadex G‐75 fraction containing the peak of acrosome reaction‐inducing activity was 45,000 ± 4,200 (SD). The occurrence of physiological acrosome reactions was supported by: assessing motility (no significant loss of motility occurred during the treatment period when sperm were preincubated with bovine serum albumin), transmission electron microscopy (the ultrastructural criteria for the acrosome reaction were met), and zona‐free hamster oocyte binding and penetration (spermatozoa pretreated with the active fraction of follicular fluid, then washed and incubated with oocytes, showed significantly greater binding to and penetration of oocytes). The stimulation of the acrosome reaction by follicular fluid is apparently not due to blood serum contamination; treatment of preincubated spermatozoa with sera from the follicular fluid donors had no effect on the spermatozoa. The nature of the active component(s) in that fraction is currently being investigated.

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Wiley

Tập 14 Số 2

107-121

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