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Sperm Tail

 
 
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Disease relevance of Sperm Tail

 

High impact information on Sperm Tail

  • The SPIH channel, which is confined to the sperm flagellum, may be involved in the control of flagellar beating [6].
  • Subsequent resuspension in a reactivation buffer containing 0.4 mM CaCl2 and 1.0 mM MgATP2- resulted in quiescent, rather than motile, cells and each sperm tail axoneme took on an extreme, basal principal bend of 5.2 rad [7].
  • SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of demembranated toad sperm tails reveals two principal proteins in addition to the tubulins, the former probably arising from the accessory fibers and the matrix of the undulating membrane [8].
  • The presence of all the components of the protein carboxyl-methylation system in spermatozoa and the localization of PCM and some of its substrates in the sperm tail are consistent with their involvement in sperm cell motility [9].
  • Kinetic analysis demonstrated that EHNA produced mixed inhibition of both the axonemal ATPase and the partially purified dynein 1 from sea urchin sperm tails, as well as the axonemal ATPase of rat sperm tails [10].
 

Biological context of Sperm Tail

 

Anatomical context of Sperm Tail

 

Associations of Sperm Tail with chemical compounds

  • Sperm tails had more polyunsaturated fatty acids than the heads (34.1 vs. 12.1% of total fatty acids) which resulted mainly from the higher contents of DHA (19.6 vs. 1.1%) and arachidonic acid (20:4 n-6) (6.4 vs. 1.6%) in the tails [14].
  • In the cauda, the polypeptide is found on the midpiece and endpiece of the sperm tail, in detergent extracts of sperm, and in epididymal luminal fluid-enriched fractions [21].
  • In this study, we have shown data supporting that boar sperm flagellum possesses a unique cAMP-protein kinase A (PKA) signaling cascade leading to phosphorylation of Syk PTK at the tyrosine residues of the activation loop [22].
  • Further characterization of a secreted epididymal glycoprotein in mice that binds to sperm tails [23].
  • Modulation of sperm tail protein tyrosine phosphorylation by pentoxifylline and its correlation with hyperactivated motility [24].
 

Gene context of Sperm Tail

  • These results are consistent with an essential housekeeping or developmental function for PMCA1, but not PMCA4, and show that PMCA4 expression in the principle piece of the sperm tail is essential for hyperactivated motility and male fertility [25].
  • Drosophila KAP interacts with the kinesin II motor subunit KLP64D to assemble chordotonal sensory cilia, but not sperm tails [26].
  • Voltage-dependent anion-selective channels VDAC2 and VDAC3 are abundant proteins in bovine outer dense fibers, a cytoskeletal component of the sperm flagellum [27].
  • Our data suggest a role for Spag4 in protein localization to two major sperm tail structures [28].
  • MCT2 has a ten-fold higher affinity for substrates than MCT1 and MCT4 and is found in cells where rapid uptake at low substrate concentrations may be required, including the proximal kidney tubules, neurons and sperm tails [29].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Sperm Tail

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