- Title
- The soluble sperm factor that causes Ca²⁺ release from sea-urchin (Lytechinus pictus) egg homogenates also triggers Ca²⁺ oscillations after injection into mouse eggs
- Creator
- Parrington, John; Jones, Keith T.; Lai, F. Anthony; Swann, Karl
- Relation
- Biochemical Journal Vol. 341, Issue 1, p. 1-4
- Relation
- http://www.biochemj.org/bj/341/bj3410001.htm
- Publisher
- Portland Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 1999
- Description
- Cytosolic extracts of boar sperm contain a soluble phospholipase C (PLC) activity that induces Ca²⁺ release in sea-urchin (Lytechinus pictus) egg homogenates and an uncharacterized protein factor that causes Ca²⁺ oscillations when injected into mammalian eggs. In the present study we fractionated boar sperm extracts on three different FPLC chromatographic columns and found that the fractions that caused maximal Ca²⁺ release in sea-urchin egg homogenates were also the ones that triggered Ca²⁺ oscillations in mouse eggs. Our data suggests that the sperm factor which triggers Ca²⁺ oscillations in eggs contains a PLC and not the 33 kDa glucosamine deaminase previously suggested to be one its components.
- Subject
- cytosolic; phospholipase C; calcium; egg homogenates; sperm; oscillations
- Identifier
- uon:6581
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804296
- Identifier
- ISSN:0264-6021
- Language
- eng
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