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Provedor de dados: | 52
País: | Brazil
Título: | Sperm and Egg Jelly Coat from Sea Urchin Lytechinus variegatus Collected in Rio de Janeiro Contain Distinct Sialic Acid-Rich Polysaccharides
Autores: | Valle,Gabrielle M.; Cinelli,Leonardo P.; Todeschini,Adriane R.; Brito-Gitirana,Lycia de; Vilela-Silva,Ana-Cristina E.S.; Mourão,Paulo A.S.
Data: | 2015-08-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Sea urchin; Sperm; Egg jelly coat; Fertilization; Sialic acid; Sulfated polysaccharide.
Resumo: | This work found the occurrence of a distinct sialic acid-rich polysaccharide in the sperm surface of the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus, which differed significantly from a similar molecule found in the egg jelly. The sperm polysaccharide extracted by protease digestion was purified using anion exchange chromatography and characterized using agarose gel electrophoresis, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. This polysaccharide was highly sulfated and composed almost exclusively of N-acetylneuraminic acid. In contrast, the sialic acid-rich polysaccharide from the egg jelly was composed of N-glycolylneuraminic acid and contains several other hexoses in its structure. This new molecule could help to characterize in further detail the mechanism of fertilization in the sea urchin model system. Sulfated polysaccharides from the jelly coat of sea urchins showed species-specificity in inducing the sperm acrosome reaction, providing an example of a signal transduction event regulated by the sulfated polysaccharide. The new sialic acid-rich polysaccharide found in the sperm head could represent a new molecule involved in the biology of the sea urchin fertilization.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132015000400617
Editor: | Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná - Tecpar
Relação: | 10.1590/S1516-8913201500052
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology  v.58 n.4 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess