title: Rethinking the relationship between hyperactivation and chemotaxis in mammalian sperm.
abstract: Hyperactivation, a motility pattern of mammalian sperm in the oviduct, is essential to fertilization. Hyperactivation helps sperm to swim effectively through oviductal mucus, to escape from the sperm reservoir, and to penetrate the cumulus matrix and zona pellucida of the oocyte. There is some evidence that mammalian sperm can undergo chemotaxis; however, the relationship of chemotaxis to hyperactivation is unknown. Ca(2+) signaling is involved in hyperactivation and implicated in chemotaxis as well. In vivo, sperm hyperactivate in the lower oviduct, far from the cumulus-oocyte complex and possibly beyond the influence of chemotactic gradients emanating from the oocyte or cumulus. Thus, sperm are likely to be hyperactivated before sensing chemotactic gradients. Chemotactic signals might modulate hyperactivation to direct sperm toward oocytes as they reach a region of influence. Ca(2+)-directed modulation of hyperactivation is a potential mechanism of this process.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
authors.forename: Haixin
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: Susan S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Suarez
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology; D002633:Chemotaxis / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008322:Mammals; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013081:Sperm Motility / Q000502:physiology*; D013084:Sperm-Ovum Interactions / Q000502:physiology; D013094:Spermatozoa / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002118:Calcium
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