期刊
ASIAN JOURNAL OF ANDROLOGY
卷 17, 期 4, 页码 554-560出版社
WOLTERS KLUWER MEDKNOW PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.4103/1008-682X.153847
关键词
artificial insemination; biomarker; fertility; fertilization; flow cytometry; infertility; nanotechnology; oocyte activation; Postacrosomal Sheath WWI Domain Binding Protein; sperm; SPTRX3; thioredoxin; ubiquitin
资金
- USDA-NIFA [2013-67015-20961, 2011-67015-20025]
- NIH-NICHD [1R21HD066333-01]
- Missouri Life Science Research Board [13324-2007]
- University of Missouri
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III [PI050065, PI080557]
- Fondo Social Europeo, FEDER
- Junta de Andalucia, Spain [P07-CVI-02697, P08-CVI-03629]
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research [MOP-84440]
- NIFA [2013-67015-20961, 577719, 2011-67015-20025, 579866] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
Biomarker-based sperm analysis elevates the treatment of human infertility and ameliorates reproductive performance in livestock. The negative biomarker-based approach focuses on proteins and ligands unique to defective spermatozoa, regardless of their morphological phenotype, lending itself to analysis by flow cytometry (FC). A prime example is the spermatid specific thioredoxin SPTRX3/TXNDC8, retained in the nuclear vacuoles and superfluous cytoplasm of defective human spermatozoa. Infertile couples with high semen SPTRX3 are less likely to conceive by assisted reproductive therapies (ART) and more prone to recurrent miscarriage while low SPTRX3 has been associated with multiple ART births. Ubiquitin, a small, proteolysis-promoting covalent posttranslational protein modifier is found on the surface of defective posttesticular spermatozoa and in the damaged protein aggregates, the aggresomes of spermiogenic origin. Semen ubiquitin content correlates negatively with fertility and conventional semen parameters, and with sperm binding of lectins LCA (Lens culinaris agglutinin; reveals altered sperm surface) and PNA (Arachis hypogaea/peanut agglutinin; reveals acrosomal malformation or damage). The Postacrosomal Sheath WWI Domain Binding Protein (PAWP), implicated in oocyte activation during fertilization, is ectopic or absent from defective human and animal spermatozoa. Consequently, FC-parameters of PAWP correlate with ART outcomes in infertile couples and with fertility in bulls. Assays based on the above biomarkers have been combined into multiplex FC semen screening protocols, and the surface expression of lectins and ubiquitin has been utilized to develop nanoparticle-based bull semen purification method validated by field artificial insemination trials. These advances go hand-in-hand with the innovation of FC-technology and genomics/proteomics-based biomarker discovery.
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