Biochemical evidence for energy-independent flippase activity in bovine epididymal sperm membranes: an insight into membrane biogenesis
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...This molecule plays a key role in pre- and post-ejaculatory life of spermatozoa [Sheriff and Ali 2010; Schwarz et al. 2013; Saez et al. 2011; Rajasekharan et al. 2013]....
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...molecule plays a key role in pre- and post-ejaculatory life of spermatozoa [Sheriff and Ali 2010; Schwarz et al. 2013; Saez et al. 2011; Rajasekharan et al. 2013]....
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...Spermatozoa were able to incorporate radiolabeled precursors of palmitic acid, glycerol, choline, and arachidonic acid into DAG and phosphatidylcholine (PC), indicating that they possess active PL-synthesizing capability (Neill & Masters 1972, Vasquez & Roldan 1997)....
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...But in somatic and yeast cells, the transbilayer movement of lipids is reported to be independent of their head group and a t1/2 of 10–15 min was reported for spin-labeled PE, PC, and cardiolipin in purified beef heart mitochondrial inner membranes (Simbeni et al. 1990, Gallet et al. 1999)....
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...In boar spermatozoa during transit from epididymis, the membrane proportion of PE, PS, and phosphatidylinositol decreased along with an increase in the amount of PC, sphingomyelin, and polyphosphoinositides (Nikolopoulou et al. 1985, Reid et al. 2011)....
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...The pellet containing sedimented tissue fragments was discarded and supernatant centrifuged at 1500 g for 10 min at 4 8C to pellet spermatozoa (Nagdas et al. 2006, Chakrabarty et al. 2007)....
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