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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
Volume 284, Issue 1, Pages 126-142Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2005.05.008
Keywords
lysozyme-like; SLLP1; spermatozoa; mouse; fertilization; sperm-egg binding; sperm-egg fusion; acrosome; perivitelline matrix
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- FIC NIH HHS [D43 TW/HD 00654] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [U54 HD 29099] Funding Source: Medline
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This study demonstrates the retention of mouse sperm lysozyme-like protein (mSLLP1) in the equatorial segment of spermatozoa following the acrosome reaction and a role for mSLLP1 in sperm-egg binding and fertilization. Treatment of cumulus intact oocytes with either recmSLLP1 or its antiserum resulted in a significant (P <= 0.05) inhibition of fertilization. Co-incubation of zona-firee mouse oocytes with capacitated mouse spermatozoa in the presence of varying concentrations of anti-recmSLLP1 serum or recmSLLP1 also inhibited sperm-oolemma binding. A complete inhibition of binding and fusion of spermatozoa to the oocyte occurred at 12.5 mu M concentration of recmSLLP1, while conventional chicken and human lysozymes did not block sperm-egg binding. mSLLP1 showed receptor sites in the perivitelline space as well as on the microvillar region of the egg plasma membrane. The retention of mSLLP1 in the equatorial segment of acrosome-reacted sperm, the inhibitory effects of both recmSLLP1 and antibodies to SLLP1 on in vitro fertilization with both cumulus intact and zona-firee eggs, and the definition of complementary SLLP1-binding sites on the egg plasma membrane together support the hypothesis that a c lysozyme-like protein is involved in the binding of spermatozoa to the egg plasma membrane during fertilization. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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