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Lipid modulation of calcium flux through CaV2.3 regulates acrosome exocytosis and fertilization.

ABSTRACT: 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 ?1E subunit showed altered Ca(2+) responses, reduced AE, and a strong subfertility phenotype. Surprisingly, AE depended on spatiotemporal information encoded by flux through CaV2.3, not merely the presence/amplitude of Ca(2+) waves. Using studies in both sperm and voltage clamp of Xenopus oocytes, we define a molecular mechanism for GM1/CaV2.3 regulatory interaction, requiring GM1's lipid and sugar components and CaV2.3's ?1E and ?2? subunits. Our results provide a mechanistic understanding of membrane lipid regulation of Ca(2+) flux and therefore Ca(2+)-dependent cellular and developmental processes such as exocytosis and fertilization.

SUBMITTER: Cohen R

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3947087 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Lipid modulation of calcium flux through CaV2.3 regulates acrosome exocytosis and fertilization.

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]

PMID: 24525187

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Lipid modulation of calcium flux through CaV2.3 regulates acrosome exocytosis and fertilization.

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Lipid modulation of calcium flux through CaV2.3 regulates acrosome exocytosis and fertilization.

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