RAPID NON-GENOMIC ACTIONS OF PROGESTERONE STIMULATE CA2+ INFLUX AND THE ACROSOME REACTION IN HUMAN SPERM
RAPID NON-GENOMIC ACTIONS OF PROGESTERONE STIMULATE CA2+ INFLUX AND THE ACROSOME REACTION IN HUMAN SPERM
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DOI:
10.1016/0898-6568(93)90048-q
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发表时间:
1993-09-01
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
BLACKMORE, PF
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作者:
BLACKMORE, PF
This review summarizes some recent findings in human sperm which show that progesterone and 17alpha hydroxyprogesterone are able rapidly (within seconds) to elevate [Ca2+]i and elicit the acrosome reaction (AR) via a non-genomic cell surface receptor. Progesterone promotes a transient elevation in [Ca2+]i which is blocked by extracellular La3+ and Ni2+ and removal of extracellular Ca2+ following chelation with EGTA. Some studies suggest that polyamines, trypsin-like proteases, and progesterone receptor aggregation are involved in progesterone-induced Ca2+ influx and AR. The receptor is not stimulated by the potent synthetic progestigins (e.g. promegestone, norethynodrel, megestrol acetate, cyproterone acetate) and is weakly antagonized by the genomic anti-progestins RU 486 and ZK 98.299. The sedative-hypnotic 3alpha hydroxyl A-ring reduced pregnane steroids, which are powerful activators of the GABA(A) Cl- channel, are weak activators of Ca2+ influx and the AR. These data suggest that human sperm have a cell surface steroid receptor which is unlike the genomic progesterone receptor and the GABA(A) Cl- channel steroid receptor.