Bibliographic citations
Rodriguez, C., (2012). Identificación y evaluación del mecanismo de activación del sistema proacrosina/acrosina en espermatozoides de alpaca (vicugna pacos) [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/1411
Rodriguez, C., Identificación y evaluación del mecanismo de activación del sistema proacrosina/acrosina en espermatozoides de alpaca (vicugna pacos) [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/1411
@misc{renati/477775,
title = "Identificación y evaluación del mecanismo de activación del sistema proacrosina/acrosina en espermatozoides de alpaca (vicugna pacos)",
author = "Rodriguez Llanos, Claudia Violeta",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2012"
}
--- The acrosome reaction (AR), is an event needed to zona pellucida (ZP) penetration and membrane fusion during fertilization, is controlled by the activation of proteases, especially by the proacrosin/acrosin system in mammals. The presence of that system has been already described by Valdivia et al. (2000); however, to date it is unknown under which system the AR is controlled in alpaca’s sperm even though recent studies in human, canine and bovine sperm have demonstrated that trypsin-like and chymotrypsin-like enzymes controlled the AR. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of different trypsin-like and chymotrypsin-like enzyme inhibitors on AR and individual proteolytic activity on alpaca’s spermatozoa in order to know under which system are the alpaca’s sperm controlled. The effect of three trypsin-like inhibitors: Benzamidine (2, 4 y 6mM), soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) (20, 40 y 60µM), phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF) (0.6, 0.8 y 1mM); and one chymotrypsin-like inhibitor, Tosyl phenylalanyl chloromethyl ketone (TPCK) (0.25, 0.5 y 1µM) were tested. The AR and the individual proteolytic activity were more efficiently inhibited by benzamidine (4mM) and PMSF (0.6mM), when they were added 10 minutes before AR induction by Lysophosphatidilcoline. TPCK showed no effect on AR and proteolytic activity. Alpaca’s sperm acid extracts (AE) at pH3 were also evaluated on digestion gels, a 55KDa digestion band was observed, it would correspond to proacrosin. AEs were activated by increasing the pH from 3 to 8. The proacrosin/acrosin system activated was evaluated at 15, 30 minutes, 1, 1.5 and 2 hours on digestion gels. Three digestion bands were observed: 55KDa, corresponding to proacrosin, 47KDa corresponding to acrosin-α and 39KDa, corresponding to acrosin-β. This assay reveals that after 15 minutes, the proacrosin/acrosin system is activated and after one hour and a half proacrosin is fully activated. Acrosomal membrane fusion, acrosomal content dispersion and proteolytic activity from alpaca’s sperm are gobernated by an enzymatic trypsin-like proacrosin/acrosin system. Keywords: proteolytic activity, acrosome reaction, trypsin-like inhibitors, chymotrypsin-like inhibitors, acrosin.
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