DISTRIBUTION OF FILAMENTOUS ACTIN IN AND AROUND SPERMATIDS AND IN SPERMATOZOA OF AUSTRALIAN CONILURINE RODENTS

被引:24
作者
BREED, WG
LEIGH, CM
机构
[1] Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia
关键词
F-ACTIN; SPERM HEAD; AUSTRALIAN RODENTS;
D O I
10.1002/mrd.1080300412
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The distribution of filamentous actin around the maturing sperm head and in spermatozoa of four species of Australian conilurine rodents was investigated at the light and electron microscopic levels. Similar results were obtained for all the species studied. Mechanically isolated spermatids had NBD-phallacidin-positive longitudinal bands of fluorescence over the dorsolateral surface and, in late spermatids, bands of bright fluorescence passed perpendicularly from the dorsal convex to ventral concave surface. TEM observations indicated that these regions corresponded to filaments of ectoplasmic specializations and granular filamentous material around the tubulobulbar complexes, respectively. In testicular and cauda spermatozoa NBD-phallacidin fluorescent material was present in the two ventral processes that extended from the upper concave surface of the sperm head; also fainter material occurred along the concave border and as a dorsocaudal spur. Its distribution was identical for testicular and cauda spermatozoa. TEM of late spermatids showed that in the ventral process closest to the apical hook there were between 170 and 245 filaments, which attached to the inner surface of the postacrosomal dense lamina; in the more caudal ventral process about 70 filaments occurred. No filaments were, however, visible in the mature spermatozoon but, after immunocytochemical labelling for actin, deposition of gold particles was evident over ventral processes of both late spermatids and cauda spermatozoa. Within the female tract these ventral processes made contact with the zona matrix and were taken into the egg cytoplasm unchanged in morphology. The possible functional significance of the filamentous actin in these structures is discussed.
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