TY - JOUR
T1 - Isolation and proteomic analysis of mouse sperm detergent-resistant membrane fractions
T2 - Evidence for dissociation of lipid rafts during capacitation
AU - Sleight, Susan B.
AU - Miranda, Patricia V.
AU - Plaskett, Nia Washington
AU - Maier, Bernhard
AU - Lysiak, Jeff
AU - Scrable, Heidi
AU - Herr, John C.
AU - Visconti, Pablo E.
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - Mammalian sperm acquire fertilization capacity after residing in the female tract during a process known as capacitation. The present study examined whether cholesterol efflux during capacitation alters the biophysical properties of the sperm plasma membrane by potentially reducing the extent of lipid raft domains as analyzed by the isolation of detergent-resistant membrane fractions using sucrose gradients. In addition, this work investigated whether dissociation of the detergent-resistant membrane fraction during capacitation alters resident sperm raft proteins. Mouse sperm proteins associated with such fractions were studied by silver staining, tandem mass spectrometry, and Western blot analysis. Caveolin 1 was identified in sperm lipid rafts in multimeric states, including a high-molecular-weight oligomer that is sensitive to degradation under reducing conditions at high pH. Capacitation resulted in reduction of the light buoyant-density, detergent-resistant membrane fraction and decreased the array of proteins isolated within this fraction, including loss of the high-molecular-weight caveolin 1 oligomers. Proteomic analysis of sperm proteins isolated in the light buoyant-density fraction identified several proteins, including hexokinase 1, testis serine proteases 1 and 2, TEX101, hyaluronidase (PH20, SPAM1), facilitated glucose transporter 3, lactate dehydrogenase A, carbonic anhydrase IV, IZUMO, pantophysin, basigin, and cysteine-rich inhibitory secretory protein 1. Capacitation also resulted in a significant reduction of sperm labeling by the fluorescent lipid-analog DilC16, indicating that capacitation alters the liquid-ordered domains in the sperm plasma membrane. The observations that capacitation alters the protein composition of the detergent-resistant membrane fractions is consistent with the hypothesis that cholesterol efflux during capacitation dissociates lipid raft constituents, initiating signaling events that lead to sperm capacitation.
AB - Mammalian sperm acquire fertilization capacity after residing in the female tract during a process known as capacitation. The present study examined whether cholesterol efflux during capacitation alters the biophysical properties of the sperm plasma membrane by potentially reducing the extent of lipid raft domains as analyzed by the isolation of detergent-resistant membrane fractions using sucrose gradients. In addition, this work investigated whether dissociation of the detergent-resistant membrane fraction during capacitation alters resident sperm raft proteins. Mouse sperm proteins associated with such fractions were studied by silver staining, tandem mass spectrometry, and Western blot analysis. Caveolin 1 was identified in sperm lipid rafts in multimeric states, including a high-molecular-weight oligomer that is sensitive to degradation under reducing conditions at high pH. Capacitation resulted in reduction of the light buoyant-density, detergent-resistant membrane fraction and decreased the array of proteins isolated within this fraction, including loss of the high-molecular-weight caveolin 1 oligomers. Proteomic analysis of sperm proteins isolated in the light buoyant-density fraction identified several proteins, including hexokinase 1, testis serine proteases 1 and 2, TEX101, hyaluronidase (PH20, SPAM1), facilitated glucose transporter 3, lactate dehydrogenase A, carbonic anhydrase IV, IZUMO, pantophysin, basigin, and cysteine-rich inhibitory secretory protein 1. Capacitation also resulted in a significant reduction of sperm labeling by the fluorescent lipid-analog DilC16, indicating that capacitation alters the liquid-ordered domains in the sperm plasma membrane. The observations that capacitation alters the protein composition of the detergent-resistant membrane fractions is consistent with the hypothesis that cholesterol efflux during capacitation dissociates lipid raft constituents, initiating signaling events that lead to sperm capacitation.
KW - Fertilization
KW - Signal transduction
KW - Sperm
KW - Sperm capacitation
KW - Testis
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U2 - 10.1095/biolreprod.105.041533
DO - 10.1095/biolreprod.105.041533
M3 - Article
C2 - 15917346
AN - SCOPUS:25144513384
SN - 0006-3363
VL - 73
SP - 721
EP - 729
JO - Biology of Reproduction
JF - Biology of Reproduction
IS - 4
ER -