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Summary. Experiments to bind fluorescein-conjugated Arachis hypogea (peanut) agglutinin (FITC-PNA) to washed human spermatozoa demonstrated that this lectin binds to the acrosome region in air-dried preparations. Since there was no binding when labelling was performed in suspension, and comparable labelling to that seen in air-dried preparations was seen when spermatozoa treated with saponin (to lyse the plasma membrane) were labelled in suspension, the lectin must bind to an intracellular structure, probably the outer acrosomal membrane. This was confirmed by ultrastructural localization of colloidal gold-conjugated lectin in saponin-treated spermatozoa. Treatment of spermatozoa with the detergent Nonidet P-40 caused a marked change in the binding pattern: more spermatozoa showed binding in the equatorial segment of the acrosome with no binding in the anterior cap region. A comparable, less marked, change was seen when spermatozoa were incubated overnight under conditions known to support the capacitation and spontaneous acrosome reactions. Treatment with the calcium ionophore A23187 [GenBank] for 1 h to induce acrosome reactions artificially in uncapacitated spermatozoa resulted in the appearance of patchy acrosome fluorescence. From these experiments it is concluded that PNA binds specifically to the outer acrosomal membrane, and that FITC–PNA-labelling may be used to monitor the human sperm acrosome reaction.
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