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Thermostability of sperm nuclei assessed by microinjection into hamster oocytes.

Nuclei isolated from spermatozoa of various species (golden hamster, mouse, human, rooster, and the fish tilapia) were heated at 60 degrees-125 degrees C for 20-120 min and then microinjected into hamster oocytes to determine whether they could decondense and develop into pronuclei. Mature, mammalian sperm nuclei, which are stabilized by protamine disulfide bonds, were moderately heat resistant. For example, they remained capable of pronucleus formation even after pretreatment for 30 min at 90 degrees C. Indeed, a temperature of 125 degrees C (steam) was required to inactivate hamster sperm nuclei completely. On the other hand, nuclei of rooster and tilapia spermatozoa and those of immature hamster and mouse spermatozoa, which are not stabilized by protamine disulfide bonds, were sensitive to heating; although some of them decondensed after exposure to 90 degrees C, none formed male pronuclei. Furthermore, nuclei of mature hamster sperm became heat labile when they were pretreated with dithiothreitol to reduce their protamine disulfide bonds. These observations suggest that the thermostability shown by the nuclei of mature spermatozoa of eutherian mammals is related to disulfide cross-linking of sperm protamines.[1]

References

  1. Thermostability of sperm nuclei assessed by microinjection into hamster oocytes. Yanagida, K., Yanagimachi, R., Perreault, S.D., Kleinfeld, R.G. Biol. Reprod. (1991) [Pubmed]
 
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