PMID: 8603087Mar 13, 1996Paper

Laurdan fluorescence spectroscopy reveals a single liquid-crystalline lipid phase and lack of thermotropic phase transitions in the plasma membrane of living human sperm

Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
S Palleschi, L Silvestroni

Abstract

Membrane lipid phase(s), phase coexistence, and thermotropic phase transitions have been investigated in viable human spermatozoa using Laurdan fluorescence spectroscopy. Generalized polarization (GP) values derived from Laurdan excitation and emission spectra confirm that the sperm plasma membrane is a low polar, highly rigid (liquid-ordered) structure, and give evidence that, in the range from 10 degrees C to 42 degrees C, membrane lipids are in a single liquid-crystalline phase. The absence of phase transitions in the same thermal range argues against the hypothesis that the lipid domains previously detected on the sperm surface are produced by lipid lateral phase separation. The above findings are likely accounted for by the high cholesterol to phospholipid molar ratio found in the human sperm membrane. This is the first time that membrane lipid phase and polarity have been detected and quantified in living mammalian spermatozoa.

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