title: Amino acid sequences of porcine Sp38 and proacrosin required for binding to the zona pellucida.
abstract: We previously purified a boar sperm protein, sp38, and demonstrated that this protein bound to the 90-kDa family of zona pellucida (ZP) glycoprotein in a calcium-dependent manner. Sp38 competed with proacrosin for the binding to the zona pellucida. Herein we have isolated cDNA clones encoding sp38 from a boar testis cDNA library in lambda gt11. The amino acid sequence deduced from the cDNA sequence indicated that sp38 is initially synthesized as a 350-residue precursor protein. The N-terminal 51-residue sequence preceded the N-terminus of the mature sp38. Thus, the sp38 precursor is post-translationally modified to produce the mature protein of 299 residues. Immunostaining of sperm cells using an antibody prepared against a fusion protein of sp38 with T7 gene 10 protein suggested that sp38 is localized at the intraacrosomal region and is released after the acrosome reaction. The 11-residue sequence, KRLSKAKNLIE, in sp38 shared a significant degree of similarity with the 8-residue sequence, KRLQQLIE, in the C-terminal region of porcine proacrosin. Both synthetic oligopeptides corresponding to these two sequences inhibited the binding of 125I-labeled sp38 to zona pellucida glycoprotein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kashiwabara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Baba
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Inagaki
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mori
mesh_terms: D000176:Acrosin / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004792:Enzyme Precursors / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000378:metabolism*; D013552:Swine; D015044:Zona Pellucida / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D004792:Enzyme Precursors; C093236:Sp38 protein, Sus scrofa; C022438:proacrosin; D000176:Acrosin