Investigations on adenosine 3′, 5′-monophosphate phosphodiesterase in ram semen and initial characterization of a sperm-specific isoenzyme

J. S. Tash

doi:10.1530/jrf.0.0470063

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Investigations on adenosine 3′, 5′-monophosphate phosphodiesterase in ram semen and initial characterization of a sperm-specific isoenzyme

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1530/jrf.0.0470063

Volume/Issue:: Volume 47: Issue 1

Page Range:: 63–72

Article Type:: Research Article

Online Publication Date:: May 1976

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Phosphodiesterase is shown to occur in ram semen, and its activity to be higher in spermatozoa than in seminal plasma. Using similar substrate levels, the rate at which adenosine 3′,5′-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) is metabolized by phosphodiesterase in spermatozoa is about 100 times higher than that of cyclic AMP synthesis by adenylate cyclase. In spermatozoa, phosphodiesterase is present partly in a soluble form, and partly bound; both forms can be extracted by sonication. The soluble enzyme (pH optimum 8·0, K_m = 1·5 μM, mol. wt 165,000) occurs as a single isoenzyme, as shown by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and anion-exchange chromatography; this isoenzyme appears to be specific for spermatozoa and its formation in the testis coincides with the appearance of spermatozoa. The bound sperm enzyme has been solubilized with Triton X-100 ; it is a single isoenzyme (pH optimum 8·0, mol.wt 165,000) which is electrophoretically different from the soluble form, but similar to the phosphodiesterase found in other tissues. Seminal plasma phosphodiesterase (pH optimum 8·8, mol. wt 165,000) is present in the form of three isoenzymes; all three are different from the two forms of sperm phosphodiesterase, but are similar to the isoenzymes found in certain male accessory organs.

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