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Development, Vol 125, Issue 23 4627-4635, Copyright © 1998 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
KT Jones, C Soeller and MB Cannell
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Mouse sperm-egg fusion was examined using two-photon and confocal microscopy. A delay of several minutes occurred between the first observable event of fusion (which was the diffusion of Ca2+-sensitive dyes from egg into sperm) and any change in egg cytoplasmic Ca2+. When indo-1 dextran was used to obtain ratiometric two-photon images, there was no detectable local increase in egg cytoplasmic Ca2+ near the site of sperm fusion. However, the sperm underwent a Ca2+ transient which appeared to be coincident with the egg cytoplasm Ca2+ transient, which suggested that there was a high permeability pathway for Ca2+ between egg and sperm. To exclude this pathway from providing trigger Ca2+ for the egg transient, we reduced bathing [Ca2+] to approx. 18 microM and 13nM (with EGTA). In these conditions the first egg Ca2+ transient was not prevented, which makes an obligatory role for extracellular Ca2+ in the initiation of the egg Ca2+ transient unlikely. Both FITC-albumin (70 kDa) and 10 kDa dextran-linked Ca2+ indicators were able to diffuse into the sperm from the egg. In addition, phycoerythrin (240 kDa) rapidly diffused into the sperm shortly after fusion (but before any changes in Ca2+ occurred). This suggests that the 'pore(s)' that form during sperm-egg fusion must be at least 8 nm in diameter. These data are compatible with the idea that a diffusible sperm protein could trigger the observed changes in intracellular Ca2+ in the egg, but do not exclude the possibility that other second messengers are generated during sperm-egg fusion.
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