CALCIUM-INDUCED QUIESCENCE IN REACTIVATED SEA-URCHIN SPERM
CALCIUM-INDUCED QUIESCENCE IN REACTIVATED SEA-URCHIN SPERM
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DOI:
10.1083/jcb.84.1.13
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
7.8
通讯作者:
GIBBONS, IR
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作者:
GIBBONS, BH;GIBBONS, IR
Sperm flagella of the sea urchin T. gratilla beat with asymmetrical being waves after demembranation with Triton X-100 in the presence of EGTA [ethylene glycol-bis(.beta.-aminoethyl ether)N,N,N'',N'' tetraacetic acid] and reactivation at pH 8.1 with 1 mM ATP in the presence of 2 mM MgSO4. Addition of 0.1-0.2 mM free Ca2+ to these reactivated sperm induces 70-95% of them to become quiescent. This quiescence can be reversed by reduction of the free Ca2+ concentration with EGTA or by dilution to reduce the MgATP2- concentration below 0.3 mM. The quiescent waveform is characterized by a sharp principal bend of about 5.6 rad [radix] in the proximal region of the flagellum, a slight reverse bend in the midregion that averages about 0.3 rad and a principal bend of about 1.1 rad in the tip. The quiescent sperm are highly fragile mechanically; disruption, including microtubule sliding, occurs spontaneously at a slow rate upon standing or immediately upon gentle agitation. Mild digestion by trypsin causes a gradual appearance of normal, symmetrical flagellar beating. Addition of increasing concentrations of vanadate to quiescent sperm causes a graded decrease in the proximal bend angle, with 50 .mu.M vanadate reducing it to about 2.6 rad. In the presence of 0.1 mM free Ca2+ and 10 .mu.M vanadate, a characteristic, crescented stationary bend is induced in the demembranated sperm, without intermediate oscillatory beating, by the addition of either 0.1 or 1 mM ATP. In the absence of vanadate, these 2 concentrations of ATP produce asymmetric beating and quiescence, respectively. Quiescence in live sperm is induced by an elevated concentration of intracellular Ca2+. They demonstrate that bending can occur in flagella in which oscillatory bearing is inhibited and emphasize the close relationship between asymmetric beating and quiescence.