IMMUNOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OUTER ACROSOMAL MEMBRANE OF BOAR SPERMATOZOA
IMMUNOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OUTER ACROSOMAL MEMBRANE OF BOAR SPERMATOZOA
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DOI:
10.1002/mrd.1120110205
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
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SCHILL, WB
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HINRICHSEN, AC;TOPFERPETERSEN, E;SCHILL, WB
Antiserum to purified boar spermatozoan outer acrosomal membrane (OAM) was raised in rabbits and adsorbed with boar liver and serum glutaraldehyde cross-linked immunoadsorbents. The IgG fraction of the antiserum was purified by (NH4)2SO4 precipitation followed by ion-exchange chromatography. Indirect immunofluorescence showed bright fluorescent staining of the acrosomal cap of boar spermatozoa and to a lesser extent of the acrosomes of bull and goat spermatozoa after incubation with anti-OAM-IgG. Immuno-electron microscopy further confirmed the specificity of the antibody for the OAM. Preincubation of the anti-OAM-IgG with isolated OAM, completely abolished its reactivity. When tested by ELISA [enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay], anti-OAM-IgG reacted with boar, bull, goat and human spermatozoa; its binding activity to boar spermatozoa was significantly greater as compared to spermatozoa from the other species tested. In an effort to identify OAM antigens rcognized by this antiserum, the isolated boar OAM was labeled either with 3H or with 125I and solubilized by mild detergent treatment. The extracted components were immunoprecipitated with anti-OAM-IgG and protein A-bearing S. aureus and the isolated antigens were analyzed on sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Apparently, anti-OAM-IgG recognized 1 high molecular 3H-labeled glycoprotein (270 kdalton) and 4 125I-labeled polypeptides of lower MW of the boar OAM.