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Biology of Reproduction, Vol 32, 591-597, Copyright © 1985 by Society for the Study of Reproduction

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Immunochemical localization of secretory antigens in the human epididymis and their association with spermatozoa

JG Tezon, E Ramella, MS Cameo, MH Vazquez and JA Blaquier

Ejaculated spermatozoa were washed and extracted with 0.6 M NaCl (2 h at 0 degree C) and the extract used to immunize rabbits. The crude antibody reacted with epididymal fluid and cytosol and with prostatic cytosol but did not recognize blood serum and testicular cytosol. After adsorption with prostatic proteins, the serum was specific for epididymis. Using immunoelectrophoresis and affinity chromatography, it was found that the antibody reacted with antigens which co- electrophoresed with androgen-dependent proteins (mobility relative to albumin, Ra) 0.3, 0.43 and 1.0, previously identified in human epididymis. Weak immunofluorescence in the epithelium of proximal caput tubules was detected on tissue sections. In contrast, distal caput and corpus tubules displayed a strong fluorescence in the cytoplasm of basal and principal cells as well as in spermatozoa present in lumen. Intense fluorescence was limited to the luminal content and the apical border and sterociliae of principal cells in caudal tubules. When applied to isolated spermatozoa, the reaction was negative for testicular sperm, while 49%, 82% and 100% of spermatozoa from caput, corpus and cauda, respectively, had a fluorescent acrosomal cap. An apparent gradient of increasing fluorescent intensities was also observed in this sequence. The reaction was strongest over the acrosomal cap, apparently absent in the postacrosomal region and weaker over the midpiece and principal piece. These results are interpreted as suggestive of the progressive coating of human spermatozoa with androgen-dependent epididymal proteins during epididymal transit.


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