Structure of human sperm DNA and background damage, analysed by in situ enzymatic treatment and digital image analysis

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作者
Muriel, L
Segrelles, E
Goyanes, V
Gosálvez, J
Fernández, JL
机构
[1] Complejo Hosp Univ Juan Canalejo, Hosp Teresa Herrera, Secc Genet, La Coruna 15006, Spain
[2] Complejo Hosp Univ Juan Canalejo, Hosp Teresa Herrera, Unidad Invest, La Coruna 15006, Spain
[3] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Fac Biol, Unidad Genet, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
[4] Unidad Mujer, La Coruna, Spain
关键词
alkali-labile sites; alkaline DNA unwinding; chromatin structure; DBD-FISH; sperm DNA;
D O I
10.1093/molehr/gah029
中图分类号
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
DNA breakage detection-fluorescence in situ hybridization (DBD-FISH) is a procedure to detect and quantify DNA breaks in situ, on a cell-by-cell basis. A comparison between sperm nuclei versus peripheral blood leukocytes using this method demonstrated that the nucleoids from mature human sperm are 12.7 times more sensitive to alkaline denaturation than those from human peripheral blood leukocytes. To investigate the origin of this alkali sensitivity, different approaches were employed. First, free 3'-OH ends of background DNA breaks were labelled by Klenow polymerase, or by DNA polymerase I following the in situ nick translation assay. Second, the presence of abasic sites, the other recognized DNA lesions that lends to constitutive alkali sensitivity, and DNA breaks with blocked 3' ends, were determined by in situ exonuclease III digestion prior to the polymerase labelling. The results demonstrated that the sperm nucleoid contains similar to2.5-fold higher density of background DNA breaks with 3'-OH ends, and also similar to2.8-fold higher density of basal abasic sites and DNA breaks with blocked 3' termini, than leukocytes. These differences only partially explain the significant alkali sensitivity of sperm DNA. However, in situ digestion with mung bean nuclease before DNA break labelling showed that sperm DNA is 9-fold more enriched in segments of ssDNA than DNA from leukocytes. The high frequency of partially denatured regions may result from a greater torsional stress of DNA loops in sperm chromatin due to its higher degree of compaction. Moreover, these short unpaired ssDNA stretches should be included in the category of alkali-labile sites detected by all techniques that measure DNA breaks through an alkaline unwinding step. These results provide new insights into the nature of DNA packaging in sperm nuclei.
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