Progesterone initiation of the human sperm acrosome reaction: the obligatory increase in intracellular calcium is independent of the chloride requirement.
Progesterone initiation of the human sperm acrosome reaction: the obligatory increase in intracellular calcium is independent of the chloride requirement.
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黄体酮引发人类精子顶体反应:细胞内钙的强制性增加与氯的需求无关。
DOI:
10.1016/0303-7207(94)90238-0
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发表时间:
1994
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
Meizel,S
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作者:
Turner,KO;Garcia,MA;Meizel,S
The progesterone-initiated human sperm acrosome reaction (AR) requires a rise in intracellular Ca2+([Ca2+]i), extracellular Cl−and apparently increased Cl−flux through a unique steroid receptor/Cl−channel resembling but not identical to a GABAA/C1−channel complex. The present study uses fura-2 loaded human sperm, GABAA/CL−channel blockers (picrotoxin and pregnenolone sulfate) and Cl−-containing and Cl−-deficient media to determine whether the progesterone-mediated increase in [Ca2+]iis dependent on the Cl−requirement. There was no significant difference between the progesterone-mediated increases of [Ca2+]iobtained in Cl−-containing and Cl−-deficient media. Picrotoxin did not significantly inhibit the progesterone-mediated increase in [Ca2+]i, and pregnenolone sulfate increased [Ca2+]ito the same extent as progesterone. These results strongly suggest that the increase in [Ca2+]iessential to the AR is independent of the AR Cl−requirement and could be explained by the existence of two different sperm plasma membrane progesterone receptors.