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BIOLOGY OF REPRODUCTION
卷 77, 期 3, 页码 407-415出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.061473
关键词
early development; epididymis; sperm maturation; vas deferens
资金
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD28501] Funding Source: Medline
We recently demonstrated that mouse spermatozoa contain a mechanism to degrade their DNA into loop-sized fragments of about 50 kb, mediated by topoisomerase II B, termed sperm chromatin fragmentation (SCF). SCF is often followed by a more complete digestion of the DNA with a sperm nuclease. When SCF-induced spermatozoa are injected into oocytes, the paternal pronuclei degrade their DNA after the initiation of DNA synthesis, but the maternal pronuclei are unaffected and replicate normally. Here, we tested whether the nuclease activity changes in spermatozoa of different maturation stages, and whether there is a functional relationship between the initiation of DNA synthesis and paternal DNA degradation induced by SCIF in the zygote. We found that spermatozoa from the vas deferens have a much higher level of SCF activity than those from the cauda epididymis, suggesting that spermatozoa may acquire this activity in the vas deferens. Furthermore, paternal pronuclei formed in zygotes from injecting oocytes with SCF-induced vas deferens spermatozoa degraded their DNA, but this degradation could be inhibited by the DNA synthesis inhibitor, aphidicolin. Upon release from a 4 h aphidicolin-induced arrest, DNA synthesis was initiated in maternal pronuclei, while the paternal pronuclei degraded their DNA. Longer aphidicolin arrest resulted in the paternal pronuclei replicating their DNA, suggesting that delaying the initiation of DNA synthesis allowed the paternal pronuclei to overcome the SCF-induced DNA degradation pathway. These results suggest that the paternal DNA degradation, in oocytes fertilized with SCF-induced spermatozoa, is coupled to the initiation of DNA synthesis in newly fertilized zygotes.
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