Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the main kinetic parameters of ATP hydrolysis by ouabain sensitive Na+, K+-ATP-ase in spermatozoa of infertile men

  • R. V. Fafula Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Pekarska Str., 69, Lviv, 79010, Ukraine
  • O. I. Meskalo Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Pekarska Str., 69, Lviv, 79010, Ukraine
  • E. I. Lychkovskyy Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Pekarska Str., 69, Lviv, 79010, Ukraine
  • Z. D. Vorobets Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Pekarska Str., 69, Lviv, 79010, Ukraine
Keywords: Na, K -ATP-ase, inhibition, kinetic analysis, spermatozoa, male infertility

Abstract

Background: It is known that Na+,K+-ATP-ase plays important role in physiology of spermatozoa including their motility. Na+,K+-ATP-ase is one of the targets for reactive oxygen species. Hyperproduction of reactive oxygen species can damage sperm cells and it is considered to be as one of the mechanisms of male infertility.

Objectives: To evaluate the H2O2 effect on the main kinetic parameters of ATP hydrolysis by ouabain-sensitive Na+,K+-ATPase of spermatozoa of fertile (normozoospermia) and infertility men (asthenozoospermia).

Materials and methods: Na+, K+-ATP-ase activity was determined spectrophotometrically by production of Pi. Concentration dependencies ware linearized in Lineweaver-Burk plot.

Results: Effective inhibitory effect of H2O2 on ouabain-sensitive Na+,K+-ATP-ase activity of sperm cells of fertile and infertile men was demonstrated. The effects of H2O2 on the main kinetic parameters of the ATP hydrolysis with the involvement of Na+, K+-ATP-ase was studied. In the whole range of studied concentrations of ATP the Na+, K+-ATP-ase activity of spermatozoa of fertile and infertile men was reduced in the presence of H2O2 in the incubation medium. However, the optimal activity of the Na+, K+-ATP-ase activity of sperm cells in both normozoospermic and asthenozoospermic men was observed in the presence of 5 mM ATP in the incubation medium. By linearization of concentration curves in Lineweaver-Burk plot the main kinetic parameters of Na+, K+-activated, Mg2+-dependent ATP hydrolysis in the sperm cells of fertile and infertile men were determined. Under the effect of H2O2, the affinity constant of enzyme to ATP in normozoospermic and asthenozoospermic men increases several times. The initial maximum rate of ATP hydrolysis was significantly reduced only in the spermatozoa of fertile men with normozoospermia.

Conclusions: Under conditions of H2O2-induced oxidative stress the inhibition of ouabain-sensitive Na+,K+-ATP-ase activity in sperm cells occurs due to a decrease in the enzyme affinity to the substrate and a decrease in the maximum reaction rate (only for asthenozoospermic men).

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2017-12-22
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Fafula, R. V., Meskalo, O. I., Lychkovskyy, E. I., & Vorobets, Z. D. (2017). Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the main kinetic parameters of ATP hydrolysis by ouabain sensitive Na+, K+-ATP-ase in spermatozoa of infertile men. Biophysical Bulletin, 2(38), 45-53. https://doi.org/10.26565/2075-3810-2017-38-05
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Cell biophysics