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Summary. When western blots of human sperm proteins solubilized by acid extraction (presumably mainly acrosomal proteins) or by sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) were probed with biotin-conjugated Pisum sativum agglutinin (PSA), distinct sets of proteins were labelled in both preparations. When smears of human spermatozoa were treated with methanol either for 30 s or for 15 min and then exposed to FITC-conjugated PSA, the resulting fluorescence pattern essentially depended on the time of methanol treatment. With the longer treatment, fewer spermatozoa showed selective acrosomal labelling and more were labelled uniformly throughout, without a clear predilection for a single sperm region. With the shorter time of methanol treatment, the poorly topographically differentiated, whole-cell labelling was typical of dead spermatozoa as confirmed by a close correlation between the percentages of spermatozoa showing this type of labelling and of those stained supravitally with Hoechst 33258. The preferential whole-cell labelling of dead spermatozoa with PSA is considered to be due to increased availability of the nonacrosomal set of PSA-reactive sites in dead spermatozoa after a short treatment with methanol, whereas this treatment is probably not sufficient to expose most of these sites when applied to living spermatozoa. The simplicity of the staining protocol makes this method feasible in routine work in a number of clinical and research applications.
Keywords: acrosomal staining; acrosome reaction; sperm viability; human
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