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SUBMITTER: Cohen R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3947087 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cohen Roy R Buttke Danielle E DE Asano Atsushi A Mukai Chinatsu C Nelson Jacquelyn L JL Ren Dongjun D Miller Richard J RJ Cohen-Kutner Moshe M Atlas Daphne D Travis Alexander J AJ
Developmental cell 20140201 3
Membrane lipid regulation of cell function is poorly understood. In early development, sterol efflux and the ganglioside GM1 regulate sperm acrosome exocytosis (AE) and fertilization competence through unknown mechanisms. Here, we show that sterol efflux and focal enrichment of GM1 trigger Ca(2+) influx necessary for AE through CaV2.3, whose activity has been highly controversial in sperm. Sperm lacking CaV2.3's pore-forming α1E subunit showed altered Ca(2+) responses, reduced AE, and a strong s ...[more]