Detection of P2 precursors in the sperm cells of infertile patients who have reduced protamine P2 levels

Fertility and Sterility
L De YebraRafael Oliva

Abstract

To determine whether the reduction in the protamine P2 content (increased P1/P2 ratio) reported in some infertile patients could result from incomplete processing of protamine P2 precursors. Analysis of samples with a marked reduction in the protamine P2 content using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequent detection of protamine P2 precursors through Western blot analysis. University departments and laboratories. One hundred eighty-four men undergoing an evaluation for infertility. Comparative Western blot analysis of nuclear sperm proteins using specific antibodies to protamine P1 and protamine P2. After selection of the samples with a marked reduction of the protamine P2 content and subsequent analysis by Western blot, a small proportion of putative P2 precursors was detected in most samples, whereas a significant increase was detected in two of them. In some infertile men, a reduction in the protamine P2 content relative to protamine P1 (increased P1/P2 ratio) is detected concomitant with an increase in the amount of putative P2 precursors. This could represent the first report of incomplete processing of a nuclear sperm protein in humans.

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