What is it about?
The paper describes the protein makeup of a structure, the Hermes body, that is deduced to initiate sperm motility and compartmentalize membrane trafficking for sperm maturation
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Conserved among all mammalian species the structure is deduced to compartmentalize proteins that initiate sperm motility through membrane traffic.
Perspectives
The structure was first observed in 1909 with little known of its function until its isolation and protein characterization. Through a quantitative characterization of its protein makeup by tandem mass spectrometry and the localization of several of the characterized proteins by light and electron microscopy, the deduced function of the structure in the invitation of sperm motility through membrane traffic was found.
Dr John J. M. Bergeron
McGill University
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This page is a summary of: Compartmentalization of membrane trafficking, glucose transport, glycolysis, actin, tubulin and the proteasome in the cytoplasmic droplet/Hermes body of epididymal sperm, Open Biology, August 2015, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.150080.
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