Mouse sperm membrane potential hyperpolarization is necessary and sufficient to prepare sperm for the acrosome reaction

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 287, Issue 53, 2012, Pages 44384-44393

  De La Vega Beltran, Jose Luis ^a   Sánchez Cárdenas, Claudia ^a   Krapf, Darío ^b   Hernandez González, Enrique O ^c   Wertheimer, Eva ^d   Treviño, Claudia L ^a   Visconti, Pablo E ^d   Darszon, Alberto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROSOME REACTIONS; AMILORIDE; CAPACITATION; FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT; GENISTEIN; HYPERACTIVATED MOTILITY; HYPERPOLARIZATION; INTRACELLULAR PH; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE REORGANIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHORYLATION; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

AMINO ACIDS; CALCIUM; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; FLAVONOIDS; IONOPHORES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEINS;

MAMMALS;

AMILORIDE; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; GENISTEIN; POTASSIUM ION; TYROSINE; VALINOMYCIN;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL ASSAY; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CELL POPULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HYPERPOLARIZATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; ZONA PELLUCIDA;

ACROSOME REACTION; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPERMATOZOA;

MAMMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84871793424     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M112.393488     Document Type: Article

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