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Dev Growth Differ 1992 Feb 01;341:99-106. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-169X.1992.00099.x.
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Treatment of Starfish Sperm with Egg Jelly Induces the Degradation of Histones: (sperm/egg jelly/histone degradation/acrosome reaction/starfish).

Amano T , Okita Y , Hoshi M .


Abstract
When spermatozoa of Asterina pectinifera are treated with a solution of homologous egg jelly, besides undergoing the acrosome reaction, they begin to degrade their histones gradually. The degradation is most prominent with histone H1, almost 75% of which is degraded within one hour at 20°C. The jelly-induced histone degradation, like the acrosome reaction, requires external Ca2+ , prefers high pHs and is susceptible to Ca2+ -channel antagonists such as verapamil and diltiazem. Histone degradation is also induced by nigericin as well as monensin in normal seawater, but not in Ca2+ -free seawater. Calcium ionophore A23187, that greatly facilitates the monensin-induced histone degradation, also induces histone degradation by itself, slightly in normal seawater and markedly in Ca2+ -enriched seawater. Concanavalin A inhibits the jelly-induced histone degradation but not the jelly-induced acrosome reaction. These results suggest that egg jelly induces the histone degradation by enhancing Ca2+ -influx via a Ca2+ -channel(s) and by increasing cytoplasmic pH, through a pathway which is closely related to, but not entirely the same as, the one leading to the acrosome reaction.

PubMed ID: 37281871
Article link: Dev Growth Differ