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Effect of ultrasmall gold nanoparticles on the murine native sperm chromatin

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The effects of ultrasmall (2–3 nm) gold nanoparticles on native epididymal sperm chromatin of CBA × C57BL/6 hybrid mice and 129/IMG mice with a mutation in the DNA-polymerase iota gene were studied. It is shown that for both mouse strains after sperm incubation in a solution containing Au nanoparticles, at 23, 37 and 60°C for 30 min followed by 1 h treatment in dithiothreitol solution, a decrease in the number of nuclei with fully decondensed chromatin was observed compared with the control. Though, the manifestation of this effect in the population of 129/IMG mice mature sperm, was weaker. Also we have demonstrated that sperm of both strains that were incubated in a sol of Au nanoparticles at 60°C behave differently under the action of dithiothreitol. A considerable part (~80%) of sperm of CBA × C57BL/6 hybrid mice treated with Au nanoparticles showed high resistance to the action of dithiothreitol, whereas in the case of 129/IMG mice only ~30% did, and a partial or complete chromatin decondensation takes place in the remaining sperm. In general, using the method of nuclear chromatin decondensation in vitro for the native sperm, the patterns that we have identified in earlier studies on previously demembranized sperm are confirmed.

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  1. Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. T. Zakhidov & N. M. Mudzhiri

  2. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 31, Moscow, 119071, Russia

    V. M. Rudoy & O. V. Dement’eva

  3. Institute of Molecular Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, pl. Akademika Kurchatova 2, Moscow, 123182, Russia

    N. V. Makarova, I. A. Zelenina & L. E. Andreeva

  4. Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 26, Moscow, 119334, Russia

    N. M. Mudzhiri & T. L. Marshak

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Original Russian Text © S.T. Zakhidov, V.M. Rudoy, O.V. Dement’eva, N.M. Mudzhiri, N.V. Makarova, I.A. Zelenina, L.E. Andreeva, T.L. Marshak, 2015, published in Izvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Biologicheskaya, 2015, No. 6, pp. 565–572.

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Zakhidov, S.T., Rudoy, V.M., Dement’eva, O.V. et al. Effect of ultrasmall gold nanoparticles on the murine native sperm chromatin. Biol Bull Russ Acad Sci 42, 479–485 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1062359015060138

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