Visualization of GM1 with cholera toxin B in live epididymal versus ejaculated bull, mouse, and human spermatozoa

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作者
Buttke, DE
Nelson, JL
Schlegel, PN
Hunnicutt, GR
Travis, AJ [1 ]
机构
[1] Cornell Univ, Coll Vet Med, James A Baker Inst Anim Hlth, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[2] Cornell Univ, Weill Med Coll, New York, NY 10021 USA
[3] Rockefeller Univ, Populat Council, New York, NY 10021 USA
关键词
epididymis; gamete biology; seminal vesicles; sperm;
D O I
10.1095/biolreprod.105.046219
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The organization of membrane subdomains in mammalian sperm has recently generated controversy, with several reports describing widely differing localization patterns for the ganglioside G(M1). Using the pentameric B subunit of cholera toxin (CTB), we found G(M1) to be restricted to the plasma membrane overlying the acrosome in the heads of live murine sperm. Interestingly, CTB had minimal binding to live bovine and human sperm. To investigate whether this difference in G(M1) localization was because of species differences or differences between collection from the epididymis (mouse) or an ejaculate (bull, human), we examined epididymal bovine and human sperm. We found that G(M1) localized to the plasma membrane overlying the acrosome in sperm from these species. To determine whether some component of seminal plasma was interfering with the ability of CTB to access G(M1) we incubated epididymal mouse sperm with fluid from murine seminal vesicles and epididymal bull sperm with bovine seminal plasma. This treatment largely abolished the ability of the CTB to bind to G(M1), producing a fluorescence pattern similar to that reported for the human. The most abundant seminal plasma protein, PDC-109, was not responsible for this loss. As demonstration that the seminal plasma was not removing G(M1), sperm exposed to seminal plasma were fixed before CTB addition, and again displayed fluorescence over the acrosome. These observations reconcile inconsistencies reported for the localization of G(M1) in sperm of different species, and provide evidence for the segregation of G(M1) to a stable subdomain in the plasma membrane overlying the acrosome.
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