Acrosin and its zymogen form, proacrosin, were extracted from early and late spermatids, from ejaculated and epididymal spermatozoa (caput, corpus, and cauda) of the bull. Activity of proacrosin/acrosin and the time course of proacrosin activation were studied. It turned out that proacrosin/acrosin activity is first demonstrable in haploid spermatids, increases during spermiohistogenesis in the testis, and remains nearly constant in epididymal and ejaculated spermatozoa.
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