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Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa
Mammalian spermatozoa are infertile immediately after ejaculation and need to undergo a functional maturation process to acquire the competence to fertilize the female egg. During this process, called capacitation, the actin cytoskeleton dramatically changes its organization. First, actin fibers pol...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31470670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20174236 |
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author | Bernabò, Nicola Ramal-Sanchez, Marina Valbonetti, Luca Machado-Simoes, Juliana Ordinelli, Alessandra Capacchietti, Giulia Taraschi, Angela Barboni, Barbara |
author_facet | Bernabò, Nicola Ramal-Sanchez, Marina Valbonetti, Luca Machado-Simoes, Juliana Ordinelli, Alessandra Capacchietti, Giulia Taraschi, Angela Barboni, Barbara |
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description | Mammalian spermatozoa are infertile immediately after ejaculation and need to undergo a functional maturation process to acquire the competence to fertilize the female egg. During this process, called capacitation, the actin cytoskeleton dramatically changes its organization. First, actin fibers polymerize, forming a network over the anterior part of the sperm cells head, and then it rapidly depolymerizes and disappears during the exocytosis of the acrosome content (the acrosome reaction (AR)). Here, we developed a computational model representing the actin dynamics (AD) process on mature spermatozoa. In particular, we represented all the molecular events known to be involved in AD as a network of nodes linked by edges (the interactions). After the network enrichment, using an online resource (STRING), we carried out the statistical analysis on its topology, identifying the controllers of the system and validating them in an experiment of targeted versus random attack to the network. Interestingly, among them, we found that cyclin-dependent kinase (cyclin–CDK) complexes are acting as stronger controllers. This finding is of great interest since it suggests the key role that cyclin–CDK complexes could play in controlling AD during sperm capacitation, leading us to propose a new and interesting non-genomic role for these molecules. |
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spelling | pubmed-67471102019-09-27 Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa Bernabò, Nicola Ramal-Sanchez, Marina Valbonetti, Luca Machado-Simoes, Juliana Ordinelli, Alessandra Capacchietti, Giulia Taraschi, Angela Barboni, Barbara Int J Mol Sci Article Mammalian spermatozoa are infertile immediately after ejaculation and need to undergo a functional maturation process to acquire the competence to fertilize the female egg. During this process, called capacitation, the actin cytoskeleton dramatically changes its organization. First, actin fibers polymerize, forming a network over the anterior part of the sperm cells head, and then it rapidly depolymerizes and disappears during the exocytosis of the acrosome content (the acrosome reaction (AR)). Here, we developed a computational model representing the actin dynamics (AD) process on mature spermatozoa. In particular, we represented all the molecular events known to be involved in AD as a network of nodes linked by edges (the interactions). After the network enrichment, using an online resource (STRING), we carried out the statistical analysis on its topology, identifying the controllers of the system and validating them in an experiment of targeted versus random attack to the network. Interestingly, among them, we found that cyclin-dependent kinase (cyclin–CDK) complexes are acting as stronger controllers. This finding is of great interest since it suggests the key role that cyclin–CDK complexes could play in controlling AD during sperm capacitation, leading us to propose a new and interesting non-genomic role for these molecules. MDPI 2019-08-29 /pmc/articles/PMC6747110/ /pubmed/31470670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20174236 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bernabò, Nicola Ramal-Sanchez, Marina Valbonetti, Luca Machado-Simoes, Juliana Ordinelli, Alessandra Capacchietti, Giulia Taraschi, Angela Barboni, Barbara Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa |
title | Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa |
title_full | Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa |
title_fullStr | Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa |
title_full_unstemmed | Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa |
title_short | Cyclin–CDK Complexes are Key Controllers of Capacitation-Dependent Actin Dynamics in Mammalian Spermatozoa |
title_sort | cyclin–cdk complexes are key controllers of capacitation-dependent actin dynamics in mammalian spermatozoa |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6747110/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31470670 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms20174236 |
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