Sperm cells (SPZ) are derived from spermatogenesis, a highly regulated developmental
process starting from diploid precursors—spermatogonial stem cells—that undergo strictly
orchestrated mitotic and meiotic divisions to form round spermatids. Extensive morphological
and biochemical transformations in post-meiotic phase are required to differentiate round
spermatids into highly specialized SPZ [1–3]. Thus, during spermiogenesis, the round spermatids
transform into specialized and polarized cells that exhibit: at proximal end, the head
containing an elongated and transcriptionally inactive nucleus which is apically surrounded
by the Golgi-derived acrosome, and at the distal end, a tail surrounded at its proximal midpieces
by mitochondrial sheet. A part from acrosome biogenesis, the spermiogenesis accounts
for a radical chromatin remodeling that causes genome silencing [4] through histone replacement
with transition proteins, firstly, and protamines later, to obtain a tightly packaged
chromatin [5]. In parallel, a global reorganization of cytoplasmatic/cytoskeleton architecture
drives elongation step with the development of a flagellum and the formation of cytoplasmic
droplets which contain the excess cytoplasm.