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a Endocrinologie de la Reproduction, Centre de Recherche du CHUQ, Centre de Recherche en Biologie de la Reproduction, Department of OB/GYN, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada G1L 3L5
During the process of capacitation, spermatozoa go through a whole set of signaling cascade events in order to become fully competent at fertilizing the egg. An increase in sperm protein tyrosine phosphorylation has been described during this final maturational event in different animal species as well as in humans. Although the phosphotyrosine content of sperm protein is modulated by cAMP, Ca2+, BSA, oxygen derivatives, and cholesterol, no protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) nor the phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase (PTPase) directly involved in the control of the phosphotyrosine content of sperm protein has been identified. Therefore, the goal of the present study was to identify the tyrosine kinases putatively responsible for the increases in sperm protein phosphotyrosine content. In the present study, we show that the src-related tyrosine kinase c-yes is present in the head of human spermatozoa in both membranes and Triton X-100-insoluble extracts. Our hypothesis was that c-yes is a tyrosine kinase responsible for at least some of the capacitation-induced increase in protein tyrosine phosphorylation. When spermatozoa were previously incubated in the presence of 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine or 1,2-bis-(o-aminophenoxy)-ethane-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid, treatments known to increase the phosphotyrosine content of human sperm proteins, an increase in the kinase activity of immunoprecipitated yes was measured using enolase as a substrate. These results suggest that cAMP activates while Ca2+ inhibits human sperm c-yes kinase activity.
1 Supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes in Health Research to P.L. P.L. is supported by a scholarship from the Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec.
2 Correspondence: Pierre Leclerc, Endocrinologie de la Reproduction, D0-708, Pavillon Saint-François d'Assise 10, de l'Espinay, Québec, PQ, Canada G1L 3L5. FAX: 418 525 4195; pierre.leclerc{at}crsfa.ulaval.ca
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