Mouse Gamete Interactions during Fertilization in Vitro
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We have developed an assay for detecting the acrosome reaction in mouse sperm using chlortetracycline (CTC) as a fluorescent probe . Sperm known to be intact with nonreacted acrosomes show CTC fluorescence in the presence of Ca" over the anterior portion of the sperm head on the plasma membrane covering the acrosome . Sperm which have undergone the acrosome reaction do not show fluorescence on the sperm head . Mouse sperm bind to zonae pellucidae of cumulus-free eggs in vitro in a Ca'-dependent reaction ; these sperm are intact by the CTC assay . Intact sperm bind to mechanically isolated zonae under the same conditions : the egg is apparently unnecessary for this initial reaction . Sperm suspensions, in which >50% of the motile population had completed the acrosome reaction, were prepared by incubation in hyperosmolal medium followed by treatment with the divalent cation ionophore, A23187 . Cumulus-free eggs challenged with such sperm suspensions preferentially bind intact sperm ; acrosomereacted sperm do not bind . We conclude that the plasma membrane of the mouse sperm is responsible for recognition of the egg's zona pellucida and that the obligatory sequence of reactions leading to fusion of mouse gametes is binding of the intact sperm to the zona pellucida, followed by the acrosome reaction at the zona surface, followed in turn by sperm penetration of the zona .
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