Abstract:
:Staphylococcus aureus isolated from the cervix of an infertile woman was found to cause complete immobilization of human spermatozoa in vitro. Only the cell culture and cell-free supernatant showed immobilization activity, indicating that the sperm immobilization factor might be released extracellularly by the organism because no activity was observed with the washed cells. Heat treatment of the supernatant at 60 degrees C for 10 min waived its immobilizing activity, indicating that the active component may be a protein. The bioactive molecule from the supernatant was purified to homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipitation, gel permeation chromatography, and ion exchange chromatography. Sperm immobilization factor (SIF) was found to be an approximately 20 kDa protein. SIF at a concentration of 10 microg/mL was required to cause 100% immobilization of human spermatozoa after 30 min of incubation at 37 degrees C, whereas a concentration of 150 microg/mL caused immediate immobilization, and a concentration of 200 microg/mL resulted in instant loss of viability of human spermatozoa, observed by eosin-nigrosin staining. Scanning electron microscopy showed that the treatment of human spermatozoa with SIF caused multiple defects in the head, midpiece, neck, and tail region of human spermatozoa.
journal_name
Can J Microbioljournal_title
Canadian journal of microbiologyauthors
Prabha V,Gupta T,Kaur S,Kaur N,Kala S,Singh Adoi
10.1139/w09-032subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-07-01 00:00:00pages
874-8issue
7eissn
0008-4166issn
1480-3275pii
w09-032journal_volume
55pub_type
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