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Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants Hitoshi Sawada Naokazu Inoue Megumi Iwano Editors Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants Hitoshi Sawada • Naokazu Inoue Megumi Iwano Editors Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants Editors Hitoshi Sawada, Ph.D. Naokazu Inoue, Ph.D. Director and Professor Associate Professor Sugashima Marine Biological Laboratory Department of Cell Science Graduate School of Science Institute of Biomedical Sciences Nagoya University School of Medicine 429-63 Sugashima, Toba Fukushima Medical University Mie 517-0004, Japan 1 Hikarigaoka, Fukushima Fukushima 960-1295, Japan Megumi Iwano, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Graduate School of Biological Sciences Nara Institute of Science and Technology 8916-5 Takayama-cho, Ikoma Nara 630-0192, Japan ISBN 978-4-431-54588-0 ISBN 978-4-431-54589-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-54589-7 Springer Tokyo Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2013955610 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2014 . The book is published with open access at SpringerLink.com Open Access. This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License, which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. All commercial rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifi cally the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfi lms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for commercial use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for commercial use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specifi c statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Pref ace The International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants was held in Nagoya, Japan, as a joint meeting of the second Allo-authentication Meeting and the fi fth International Symposium on the Molecular and Cell Biology of Egg- and Embryo-Coats (MCBEEC), November 12–16, 2012. This was the fi rst international meeting where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered and discussed their recent progress. Approximately 160 participants met in Nagoya from all over the world, and most of the oral presenters and several poster presenters contributed as authors of this book of proceedings. Although there are several books covering plant self- incompatibility and double-fertilization systems as well as animal fertilization, until now there has been no book covering recent progress in almost all fi elds of plant and animal fertilization. This meeting was organized as part of the research project entitled “Elucidating common mechanisms of allogeneic authentication: mechanisms of sexual reproduc- tion shared by animals and plants” supported by a Grant-in-aid for Scientifi c Research on Innovative Areas from MEXT, Japan. This project was established because self-sterile mechanisms in primitive chordates (ascidians) were found to be very similar to the self-incompatibility system in fl owering plants and also because GCS1, a sperm-side factor responsible for gamete fusion, exists not only in plants but also in unicellular organisms and animals. These discoveries led us to speculate that there must be many other common mechanisms or molecules involved in sexual reproduction of animals and plants. We believe that to stimulate discussion in this innovative area, it is very important to summarize our current understanding of the mechanism of sexual reproduction. We hope that this book will be useful for many scientists, particularly those in the fi eld of sexual reproduction—which we tenta- tively call “allo-authentication”—and in intercellular communications. Toba, Japan Hitoshi Sawada Fukushima, Japan Naokazu Inoue Ikoma, Japan Megumi Iwano v a, oto, , Yuki , Yuki ozuka, Igawa, Sutovsky, Sutovsky, iku Shiba, , Hidenori Bayyinatul isato Yokoe, isato Yokoe, Ravi Palanivelu, November 12–16, 2012, Nagoya Garden Palace, Nagoya, Japan Nagoya, Japan 12–16, 2012, Nagoya Garden Palace, November [Joint Meeting of the 2nd Allo-authentication and 5th Egg-Coat (MCBEEC)], [Joint Jurrien Dean, Masaru Okabe, Hitoshi Sawada, Alberto Darszon, Stefanie Sprunck, Noni Franklin-Tong, Emily Indriolo, Teh-hui Kao, Teh-hui Emily Indriolo, Alberto Darszon, Stefanie Sprunck, Noni Franklin-Tong, Jurrien Dean, Masaru Okabe, Hitoshi Sawada, First Row (From Peter Miriam Sutovsky, Strünker, in Animals and PlantsTimo Gerton, Luca Jovine, Harvey Florman, Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction International Kenji Murata, George Gary Cherr, Left Yamato, Katsuyuki to Right) Kentaro K. Shimizu, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Hideo Mohri, Douglas Chandler Higashiyama, Hideo Mohri, Douglas Chandler Tetsuya Kentaro K. Shimizu, Second Row M Takahashi, Tomoe Saito, Ling Han, Takako Sasakura, Makoto Hirai, Yasunori Kenji Miyado, Hisayoshi Nozaki, Hiroyuki Sekimoto, Shiroshita Ayumi Yoshida, Abiko, Chihiro Ono, Kaoru Asano, Motoko Igarashi, Xintian Lao, Megumi Iwano, Kanae Ito, Mafumi Hiroko Takeshige, Miho Watanabe, Jiao Shi, Sheng Zhong, Jingjing Liu, Naoko Hirano, Rinako Miyabayashi Jiao Shi, Sheng Zhong, Jingjing Liu, Naoko Hirano, Rinako Miyabayashi Watanabe, Miho Takeshige, Third Row Tomoko Hattori, Midori Matsumoto, Eerdundagula Ebchuqin, Yoko Koyano, Tomoko Entani, Chihiro Sato, Estelle Garenaux, Tetsuyuki Chizuru Ito, Maako Makino Toshimori, Motonori Hoshi, Hanae Nodono, Kazuo Inaba, Luigia Santella, Kiyotaka Fourth Row Mohri, Keiichiro Ky Tatsuma Mori, Hiroki Okumura, Masatoshi Mita, Shigeyuki Kawano, Toshiyuki Masahiro Suzuki, Yonezawa, Naoto Hamamura, Kog Yuki Clark, Motomura, Gang Fu, Gary F. Taizo Okamoto, Takashi Akihiro Nakamura, Katsuyuki Kakeda, Kenshou Furuta, Yamada Noritaka Hirohashi, Lixy Fifth Row Harada, Masato Uchiyama, Yuichirou Takezawa, Youki Takayama, Araki, Hideaki Fukushima, Masao Ueki, Jun Kanazawa, Naoya Takeru Akiko Konishi Kato, Taku Muchtaromah, Retno Susilowati, Masako Mino, Jumpei Dake, Sixth Ijiri, Ken-ichi Sato Row Takashi Yamatoya, Baba, Kenji Tadashi Fujihara, Masahito Ikawa, Yoshitaka Satouh, Haruhiko Miyata, Yuhkoh Yamam Matsuda, Shunsuke Nishio, Naokazu Inoue, Masaya Morita, Shun Ohki, Gen Hiyama, Kazunori Tsukasa Tsutsui, Hiroki Takeuchi, Hirata Takuma Shinsaku Suetsugu, Shigemasa Hirada, Kei Otuska, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Masaaki Morisawa, Khaled Machaca, Yasuhiro Iwao, Akihiko Watanabe, Hideo Kubo, Tomohiro Sasanami, Ken Kitajim Tomohiro Hideo Kubo, Watanabe, Akihiko Iwao, Yasuhiro Hitoshi Sugiyama, Masaaki Morisawa, Khaled Machaca, Contents Part I Sperm Attraction, Activation, and Acrosome Reaction 1 Sperm Chemotaxis: The First Authentication Events Between Conspecifi c Gametes Before Fertilization ............................. 3 Manabu Yoshida 2 Respiratory CO2 Mediates Sperm Chemotaxis in Squids ................... 13 Noritaka Hirohashi, Yoko Iwata, Warwick H.H. Sauer, and Yasutaka Kakiuchi 3 Specifi c Mechanism of Sperm Storage in Avian Oviducts .................. 23 Mei Matsuzaki, Gen Hiyama, Shusei Mizushima, Kogiku Shiba, Kazuo Inaba, and Tomohiro Sasanami 4 Allurin: Exploring the Activity of a Frog Sperm Chemoattractant in Mammals ............................................................... 31 Lindsey Burnett, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Catherine Washburn, Allan Bieber, and Douglas E. Chandler 5 Structure, Function, and Phylogenetic Consideration of Calaxin ........................................................................ 49 Kazuo Inaba, Katsutoshi Mizuno, and Kogiku Shiba 6 Cl− Channels and Transporters in Sperm Physiology ......................... 59 C.L. Treviño, G. Orta, D. Figueiras-Fierro, J.L. De la Vega-Beltran, G. Ferreira, E. Balderas, O. José, and A. Darszon 7 Equatorin-Related Subcellular and Molecular Events During Sperm Priming for Fertilization in Mice ................................. 85 Chizuru Ito, Kenji Yamatoya, and Kiyotaka Toshimori ix x Contents 8 Acrosome Reaction-Mediated Motility Initiation That Is Critical for the Internal Fertilization of Urodele Amphibians ........................................................................... 97 Eriko Takayama-Watanabe, Tomoe Takahashi, Misato Yokoe, and Akihiko Watanabe 9 Analysis of the Mechanism That Brings Protein Disulfi de Isomerase-P5 to Inhibit Oxidative Refolding of Lysozyme ................. 105 Miho Miyakawa, Shuntaro Shigihara, Gosuke Zukeran, Tetsutaro Tomioka, Tasuku Yoshino, and Kuniko Akama Part II Gametogenesis, Gamete Recognition, Activation, and Evolution 10 Effect of Relaxin-Like Gonad-Stimulating Substance on Gamete Shedding and 1-Methyladenine Production in Starfi sh Ovaries ................................................................................... 115 Masatoshi Mita, Yuki Takeshige, and Masaru Nakamura 11 Incapacity of 1-Methyladenine Production to Relaxin-Like Gonad-Stimulating Substance in Ca2+-Free Seawater-Treated Starfi sh Ovarian Follicle
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