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To confirm the hypotriglyceridemic effect of aluminum (Al), male weanling and adult Wistar rats were fed sucrose diets with the addition of aluminum hydroxide (Al(OH)3) or aluminum potassium sulfate (AlK(SO4)2) for 67 days. As in the foregoing report (C. Sugawara, N. Sugawara, H. Kiyosawa, and H. Miyake, Fundam. Appl. Toxicol. 10, 607-615), no Al-induced anemia or hypophosphatemia was observed and serum Al did not exceed 20 ng/ml. Serum triglyceride (TG) was decreased by aluminum. Serum TG was significantly correlated with the serum nonesterified fatty acid (NEFA) concentration in both the Young groups (R = 0.757, n = 22, p less than 0.01) and the Adult groups (R = 0.727, n = 19, p less than 0.01). Neither serum cholesterol nor phospholipids was affected by Al ingestion. Aluminum caused a decrease in hepatic glycogen in all groups, but the decrease was significant only in Adult groups. Glycerol tri[9,10(n)-3H]oleate was administered by gastric tube into rats fed for 81 days with experimental diets. In all the Al-treated groups serum 3H was significantly greater than in control groups at 3 hr after intubation. At 24 hr after intubation, serum 3H did not differ between Control and Al-treated groups. Total 3H at 24 hr found in serum, liver, and epididymal adipose tissue was not changed significantly by Al feeding. These effects were observed without measurable increase of Al in the serum.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Decrease of serum triglyceride in normal rat fed with 2000 ppm aluminum diet for 67 days. II. Feeding young and adult rats a sucrose diet with addition of aluminum hydroxide and aluminum potassium sulfate. 339 89

The tissue distribution of glucokinase (ATP:D-hexose 6-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.1.1) was examined by protein blotting analysis. Antibodies raised against rat liver glucokinase recognized a single protein subunit with an apparent Mr of 56,500 on nitrocellulose blots of cytosol protein from liver, separated by sodium dodecyl sulfate/polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. A protein of identical electrophoretic mobility was detected by immunoblotting of cytosol protein from pancreatic islets. Hepatic glucokinase and the immunoreactive islet product bound to and were eluted from DEAE-cellulose at the same ionic strength. Glucokinase was displayed as a set of two spots with apparent pI values of 5.54 and 5.64 by immunoblotting after two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. The two isoforms appeared equally abundant in liver extract, whereas the component with a pI of 5.64 was predominant in islets. By quantitative immunoblotting, glucokinase was estimated to represent 0.1% of total cytosol protein in liver and 1/20th as much in islets. The glucokinase activity of both liver and islet cytosols was suppressed by the antibodies to hepatic glucokinase. Immunoblotting of cytosol protein from intestinal mucosa, exocrine pancreas, epididymal adipose tissue, kidney, brain, and spleen failed to reveal the glucokinase protein. Thus, significant expression of the glucokinase gene appears restricted to the liver and pancreatic islets.
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PMID:Tissue-specific expression of glucokinase: identification of the gene product in liver and pancreatic islets. 351 42

The temporal incorporation profile of [3H]leucine into the outer dense fiber polypeptides was determined after the intratesticular injection of the radioisotope. Groups of four rats were killed on alternate days after injection, and the outer dense fibers were isolated from the caput epididymal sperm. The radioactivity incorporated into the whole sperm and into the isolated fibers showed a sharp peak at 10 days after injection. Therefore, considering the known kinetics of spermatogenesis in the rat, the maximal incorporation of radioactivity into the fibers occurred during the second half of spermiogenesis. The radioactivity incorporated into the six major polypeptides of the fibers separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in the presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate accounted for 95 percent of the total radioactivity associated with the isolated fibrillar complex. Furthermore, analysis of the time-course incorporation of [3H]leucine into the polypeptides of the fibers indicated that the maximal incorporation into each of the six major components took place within the same period of time. Using two different procedures, the specific activity of each major polypeptide was determined at the time of maximal incorporation. It was found that the specific activity of the most abundant components (molecular weights of 30,400 plus 26,000) was approximately twice that of the other polypeptides.
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PMID:Biosynthesis of rat sperm outer dense fibers during spermiogenesis. In vivo incorporation of [3H]leucine into the fibrillar complex. 356 74

Rabbit Acrosome Stabilizing Factor (ASF) is an epididymal product that reversibly inhibits the process of sperm capacitation. The native molecular weights of the monomer and dimer ASF were determined from sedimentation and diffusion data at 129,000 and 259,000 Mr. The monomer is composed of 92,000 and 38,000 Mr subunits according to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE), with size heterogeneity demonstrated for the latter. The stoichiometry of the subunits appears to be one-to-one by gel scanning. Amino acid and carbohydrate compositions are characteristic of a globular glycoprotein, which is high in cysteine content and is 8.3% carbohydrate by weight. The sugar composition suggests the presence of both high mannose and complex N-linked oligosaccharides with the unusual feature of appreciable amounts of glucose. The isoelectric character of ASF spans a range from 5.3 to 7.0.
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PMID:Chemical and physical characterization of rabbit sperm acrosome stabilizing factor. 379 Jun 69

A 15-kilodalton protein has been identified as a major component of the residual protein fraction of mouse epididymal/vas spermatozoal heads, demembraned by treatment with Triton X-100 and sequentially extracted with 1 M NaCl/2-mercaptoethanol/DNase I. Two-dimensional electrophoresis of that protein before and after treatment with alkaline phosphatase indicated that it is present in epididymal/vas spermatozoa as a series of five differentially phosphorylated molecules with pI 6.0-7.0. Cyto-immunofluorescence with an affinity-purified antibody to the 15-kDa protein localized that protein to a circumscribed region of the demembraned mouse sperm head mediad from the dorsal margin. By radioimmunoassay, the 15-kDa protein was shown to be sperm-unique and species-specific. The antibody was nonreactive with homogenates of meiotic spermatogenic cells and round spermatids (stages 1-11) but was reactive with a non-phosphorylated 15.5-kDa protein of elongating spermatids (stages 12-16) and testicular spermatozoa. Following alkaline phosphatase treatment, the spermatozoal 15-kDa protein migrated to the position of the spermatidal 15.5-kDa protein on a sodium dodecyl sulfate gel. Thus, we conclude that the 15-kDa protein of mouse spermatozoa is synthesized during the elongation phase of spermiogenesis (stages 12-16) and is phosphorylated in the terminal period of that phase and/or after excursion of spermatozoa from the seminiferous tubules.
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PMID:Proteins of demembraned mouse sperm heads. Characterization of a major sperm-unique component. 388 61

Acid alpha-glucosidase and L-carnitine (a well-known epididymal marker) were measured in rete testis and epididymal fluids of adult male rams. These fluids were collected by selective catheterization or by a micropuncture technique, respectively. Both parameters remained at a low and constant level in rete testis and all along caput and corpus epididymidis. Then they increased at equivalent rates in cauda epididymidis to much higher levels than those in seminal plasma (5 mU/mg protein and 10 mM, respectively). An optimum pH study of alpha-glucosidase activity in these fluids showed two well-separated peaks in rete testis and caput epididymal fluids around pH 4 and 7, respectively, but only a single peak at pH 4 in cauda epididymidis that was comparable to the one in seminal plasma. Sucrose density gradient fractions analyzed for their enzyme content in the absence or presence of sodium dodecyl sulfate (1% w/v), a selective inhibitor of acid alpha-glucosidase activity, allowed the demonstration of two enzyme forms at pH 6.8 in rete testis fluid sedimenting in the 7S and 4S regions of the gradient, while a unique 4S form was encountered in cauda epididymidis and in seminal plasma. Although the fate of the minor 7S component of the rete testis fluid in its epididymal transit is presently unknown, similarities between the enzyme in cauda epididymidis and seminal plasma are strong enough to support the hypothesis that epididymis contributes primarily to the acid alpha-glucosidase content of ram seminal plasma.
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PMID:Major contribution of epididymis to alpha-glucosidase content of ram seminal plasma. 389

Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been generated to determine the sperm components responsible for interaction with an egg that results in fertilization. Here, we report upon a group of six different mAbs, all of which localize to a restricted region of the sperm head, the equatorial segment. Several of these mAbs demonstrated cross-reactivity with sperm from the other species tested (human, hamster, rabbit); when cross-reaction occurred, the mAb distribution was restricted to the equatorial segment despite the various configurations that this homologous region assumes in different species. When tested for an effect upon the fertilization process in vitro, ascites fluids containing two of the six mAbs, M29 and M37, displayed significant inhibition. The concentration dependency of this inhibition was observed using purified M29 immunoglobulin M, over a range of 0 to 0.2 mg/ml. The mAb inhibition of fertilization was independent of the presence of either the cellular (the cumulus) or acellular (the zona pellucida) layers surrounding the egg, indicating that the specific locus of inhibition for both of these antisperm mAbs was the egg plasma membrane. Immunologic detection of sperm components separated by electrophoresis on 12% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels followed by transfer to nitrocellulose sheets was used to identify the sperm components recognized by two of the mAbs in this group: M29, which inhibited fertilization, and M2, which did not inhibit fertilization. Using M29 mAb, a single sperm component with an apparent subunit molecular weight of approximately 40,000 was detected, whereas in the nitrocellulose strips incubated with M2 mAb two components displayed reactivity, a very prominent band at approximately 44,000 and a tight cluster of bands at approximately 36,000. Parallel nitrocellulose strips of mouse liver did not display these reactivities, consistent with indirect immunofluorescence data in which only testis and sperm, and not liver, kidney, ovary, and epididymal epithelium, demonstrated positive reactivity. These results indicate that the use of mAbs permits identification of sperm components that participate, putatively, in individual events of the fertilization process. Furthermore, using this strategy, we have identified a specific sperm component that appears to be a candidate for a role in sperm fusion with the egg plasma membrane.
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PMID:Mouse sperm antigens that participate in fertilization. I. Inhibition of sperm fusion with the egg plasma membrane using monoclonal antibodies. 389 6

Intact chimpanzee caput and cauda epididymal sperm, sperm cell lysates, and caput and cauda epididymal fluid were radiolabeled by enzymatic iodination with lactoperoxidase and Na125 I and were compared by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Caput epididymal sperm showed nine labeled macromolecular components of 90, 64, 56, 48, 38, 31, 20, 18 and 16 Kd and cauda epididymal sperm showed eleven macromolecular components of 90, 64, 55, 47, 42, 33, 27, 18, 17, 15 and 11 Kd. Six of the components labeled on caput sperm (90, 64, 56, 48, 18 and 16 Kd) were detected in equal amounts of cauda sperm and two (38 and 20 Kd) were detected at greatly reduced labeling intensities. In the cauda epididymidis, four new components (33, 27, 17 and 11 Kd) became prominent features of the sperm surface. Analysis of labeled caput and cauda sperm cell lysates resolved components distinct from those detected on sperm surfaces. Electrophoresis of caput epididymal fluid showed five labeled components of 66, 56, 47, 41 and 37 Kd, while electrophoresis of cauda epididymal fluid showed eight labeled components of 92, 66, 56, 48, 31, 27, 24 and 11 Kd. Three components (66, 56 and 47 Kd) were present in both caput and cauda fluid, two (41 and 37 Kd) in caput fluid only, and five (92, 31, 27, 24 and 11 Kd) in cauda fluid only. Components of 37 Kd were labeled in caput fluid and on caput sperm but not on cauda sperm, whereas components of 27 Kd and 11 Kd were labeled in cauda fluid and on cauda sperm but not on caput sperm. These data show that chimpanzee sperm undergo extensive surface modifications during epididymal maturation and that some of these modifications may be related to exogenous proteins/glycoproteins in epididymal fluids.
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PMID:Surface changes in chimpanzee sperm during epididymal transit. 398 70

Plasma membranes of boar sperm from caput, corpus and cauda of the epididymis were purified by differential- and sucrose-density equilibrium centrifugation and were found to yield a single band at a density of 1.13 g/cm3. This fraction was enriched in acid and alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase and (Na+ + K+)-ATPase activities, whereas it contained minimal amounts of hyaluronidase and N-acetylglucosaminidase and no succinic acid dehydrogenase activities. The plasma membrane of caput, corpus and cauda sperm had the same phospholipid/protein and cholesterol/phospholipid ratios but yielded different amounts of protein and individual lipid classes. Several changes in the plasma membrane were observed during transit of sperm through the epididymis. Within the phospholipid class a decrease in the percentage of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylinositol was detected accompanied by an increase in amount of phosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin and polyphosphoinositides. In the other lipid classes there was a decrease in the amount of free fatty acid and the major glycolipid. The amount of cholesterol decreased, while the amount of desmosterol and cholesterol sulfate increased. There was an increase in the amount of diacylglycerol. In addition, the changes in the fatty acid composition of the total membrane lipid and each phospholipid were determined. The above changes in the lipid composition of the plasma membrane during epididymal maturation may help to explain the decreased resistance to cold shock and changes in membrane fluidity of sperm during transit in the epididymis.
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PMID:Changes in the lipid content of boar sperm plasma membranes during epididymal maturation. 399 37

Androgen-binding protein (ABP) can be detected in the blood of sexually immature male rats by its ability to specifically bind [3H]5 alpha-dihydrotestosterone (5 alpha-DHT). Since the androgen-binding site is functional, we consider this ABP to be biologically active. ABP can be detected (641 +/- 107 ng/ml; n = 5) in plasma by the 15th day of postnatal life, it reaches a maximum concentration (1631 +/- 323 ng/ml; n = 5) on day 20 of age, and is no longer detectable after day 40. ABP can be detected in the testes of all age groups studied (15 days to adult). However, no ABP is detectable in the epididymis until the animals are 25 days old. Plasma ABP comigrates on nondenaturing gels with photolabeled ABP from the adult or immature rat epididymis. Serum that had been treated with Affigel blue to remove albumin and with hydroxylapatite to decolorize it was photolabeled using [3H]17 beta-hydroxy-4,6-androstadien-3-one. Photolabeled serum ABP migrated on polyacrylamide gels containing sodium dodecyl sulfate as 60,000 and 48,000 dalton androgen-specific peaks. In contrast, photolabeled adult epididymal ABP exhibited the 47,000 and 41,000 dalton peaks characteristic of ABP subunits. When photolabeled plasma and epididymal ABP were combined and electrophoresed on the same gel under denaturing conditions, prominent 60,000 and 47,000 dalton peaks were obtained, indicating that the two species of ABP retained their identities when combined. Photolabeled epididymal ABP from 25-day-old rats exhibited similar subunit mol wt in the same ratios as ABP from the adult. When epididymal ABP from the two age groups was combined and subjected to sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, the resulting pattern was identical to that obtained when the samples were run individually, except that there was an increase in peak height. These data indicated that there is no significant difference in the subunit mol wt of epididymal ABP from the two age groups.
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PMID:The ontogeny of biologically active androgen-binding protein in rat plasma, testis, and epididymis. 404 Aug 48


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