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Localisation and capacitation-dependent loss of buffalo sperm-coating antigens shared with rat sperm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Paola Venditti ,
Paolo Bergamo ,
Riccardo Talevi ,
Giovanni sansone  and
Paolo Abrescia
Paola Venditti
Affiliation:
Università ‘Federico II’ di Napoli and International Institute of Genetices and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
Paolo Bergamo
Affiliation:
Università ‘Federico II’ di Napoli and International Institute of Genetices and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
Riccardo Talevi
Affiliation:
Università ‘Federico II’ di Napoli and International Institute of Genetices and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
Giovanni sansone
Affiliation:
Università ‘Federico II’ di Napoli and International Institute of Genetices and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
Paolo Abrescia*
Affiliation:
Università ‘Federico II’ di Napoli and International Institute of Genetices and Biophysics, Naples, Italy
*
Professor P. Abrescia, Dipartimento di Fisiologia Generle ed Ambientale, via Mezzocannone 8, I-80134 Naples, Italy. Telephone: 0039 81 5526027. Fax: 0039 81 5526194.
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Summary

The heterodimeric sperm-coating protein CFS was previously localised on the middle-piece region of rat spermatozoa by anti-CFS rabbit antibodies. CFS-immunorelated antigens were detected in the secretion of the water buffalo seminal vesicle by protein electrophoresis and Western blotting. Spermatozoa from buffalo epididymal cauda were incubated with the rat antigen and, upon immunostaining with anti-CFS antibodies and goat anti-rabbit fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-conjugated IgGs, CFS was found attached on both the post-acrosomal region and the tail. Indirect immunofluorescence analysis permitted the localisation of CFS-related antigens on the same domains of buffalo ejaculated spermatozoa. These results suggest that the buffalo antigens not only share some epitopes with the homologous rat antigen but may also have some of its functional properties. Ejaculated spermatozoa were capacitated in vitro and then assayed for their content of CFS-like antigens. An inverse relationship was found between the levels of capacitation and the amounts of antigens detected, thus suggesting that the in vitro treatment was effective at removing CFS-related proteins from the cell surface. Titration of these proteins to proteins to monitor plasma membrane changes during sperm manipulation or to evaluate sperm quality is proposed.

Keywords

B. bubalisCapacitationImmunostainingSperm-coating antigens
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Commentary
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Zygote , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , February 1994 , pp. 5 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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