Demonstration of receptor-mediated chemotaxis by human spermatozoa. A novel quantitative bioassay
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Demonstration of receptor-mediated chemotaxis by human spermatozoa. A novel quantitative bioassay
Abstract
A novel in vitro technique is described for measuring the chemotactic activity of soluble substances for human spermatozoa. This new bioassay has demonstrated that the synthetic chemotactic peptide N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe elicits a potent, specific (i.e., receptor-mediated) chemotactic effect on human spermatozoa with an EC50 of 3.2 X 10(-10) M. Quantitative chemotactic studies on human spermatozoa with nine N-formylated-peptide analogs have shown a rank order of peptide potency indistinguishable (p less than 0.001) from that obtained in binding and chemotactic studies with rabbit neutrophils. The competitive antagonist Boc (t-butoxycarbonyl)-Phe-Leu-Phe-Leu-Phe, 10(-6) M, completely inhibited the chemotaxis elicited by f-Met-Leu-Phe, 10(-9) M, and was able to shift by one order of magnitude the molar concentration required by f-Met-Leu-Phe-Phe and f-Met-Leu-Phe to elicit the maximal response. The ability of N-formylated peptides to function as sperm chemoattractants reveals a high degree of correlation with binding, chemotaxis, and lysosomal enzyme release previously employed to define the neutrophil chemotactic receptor. This first unequivocal demonstration of substances having a receptor-mediated chemotactic effect for human male gametes suggests that human spermatozoa may indeed have the ability to respond chemotactically to appropriate environmental signals.
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