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Nader N, Courjaret R, Dib M, Kulkarni RP, Machaca K. Release from Xenopus oocyte prophase I meiotic arrest is independent of a decrease in cAMP levels or PKA activity. Development 2016; 143:1926-36. [PMID: 27122173 DOI: 10.1242/dev.136168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/03/2016] [Accepted: 04/07/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Vertebrate oocytes arrest at prophase of meiosis I as a result of high levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and protein kinase A (PKA) activity. In Xenopus, progesterone is believed to release meiotic arrest by inhibiting adenylate cyclase, lowering cAMP levels and repressing PKA. However, the exact timing and extent of the cAMP decrease is unclear, with conflicting reports in the literature. Using various in vivo reporters for cAMP and PKA at the single-cell level in real time, we fail to detect any significant changes in cAMP or PKA in response to progesterone. More interestingly, there was no correlation between the levels of PKA inhibition and the release of meiotic arrest. Furthermore, we devised conditions whereby meiotic arrest could be released in the presence of sustained high levels of cAMP. Consistently, lowering endogenous cAMP levels by >65% for prolonged time periods failed to induce spontaneous maturation. These results argue that the release of oocyte meiotic arrest in Xenopus is independent of a reduction in either cAMP levels or PKA activity, but rather proceeds through a parallel cAMP/PKA-independent pathway.
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- Nancy Nader
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 24144
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 24144
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 24144
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 24144
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar 24144
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Nader N, Dib M, Daalis A, Kulkarni RP, Machaca K. Role for endocytosis of a constitutively active GPCR (GPR185) in releasing vertebrate oocyte meiotic arrest. Dev Biol 2014; 395:355-66. [PMID: 25220151 DOI: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.08.036] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2014] [Revised: 08/04/2014] [Accepted: 08/28/2014] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Vertebrate oocytes are naturally arrested at prophase of meiosis I for sustained periods of time before resuming meiosis in a process called oocyte maturation that prepares the egg for fertilization. Members of the constitutively active GPR3/6/12 family of G-protein coupled receptors represent important mediators of meiotic arrest. In the frog oocyte the GPR3/12 homolog GPRx (renamed GPR185) has been shown to sustain meiotic arrest by increasing intracellular cAMP levels through GαSβγ. Here we show that GPRx is enriched at the cell membrane (~80%), recycles through an endosomal compartment at steady state, and loses its ability to signal once trapped intracellularly. Progesterone-mediated oocyte maturation is associated with significant internalization of both endogenous and overexpressed GPRx. Furthermore, a GPRx mutant that does not internalize in response to progesterone is significantly more efficient than wild-type GPRx at blocking oocyte maturation. Collectively our results argue that internalization of the constitutively active GPRx is important to release oocyte meiotic arrest.
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- Nancy Nader
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City - Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
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Otte AP, Bruinooge E, Driel R, Vente J, Durston AJ. Cyclic GMP is not involved in neural induction inXenopus laevis. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1990; 199:97-101. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02029556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/1990] [Accepted: 07/02/1990] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Riederer-Henderson MA. Effects of theophylline on expression of the long cilia phenotype in sand dollar blastulae. THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY 1988; 246:17-22. [PMID: 2838565 DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402460104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Previously, increases in ciliary length have only been obtained through genetic mutation in Chlamydomonas or by incubation of swimming echinoderm blastulae in trypsin or elastase. We have found that the phenotypic switch from short to long cilia on sand dollar blastulae can also be effected by incubation in theophylline. Cilia detached from control blastulae have a mean length of 21 +/- 7 microns with 10% of the cilia being greater than 30 microns. Upon incubation in 10 mM theophylline additional long cilia appeared after 10 hours and by 24-32 hours 1/2-3/4 of the embryo was covered with long cilia. The percentage of long cilia increased to 65% with a mean length of 40.0 +/- 17.6 microns. Incubation in other methylxanthines, such as aminophylline, caffeine, or isobutylmethylxanthine, inhibited development but had no effect on ciliary length distribution. Dibutyryl cAMP, 8-bromoadenosine, and calcium ionophore also had no effect on ciliary length. Cyclic AMP levels were measured and showed only slight differences among controls and embryos incubated in trypsin, caffeine, or theophylline. These data suggest that theophylline may be altering ciliary length control through some mechanism other than elevations in cAMP.
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While several studies have suggested that the induction of oocyte maturation results from a transient decrease in cAMP levels, attempts to demonstrate such a change have led to inconsistent results with respect to whether or not a decrease occurs as well as timing of the decrease. In this report the results of experiments designed to demonstrate small changes in cAMP content in Xenopus laevis oocytes are presented and a statistically significant 20% decrease in cAMP content from between 2 and 50 min postprogesterone addition is found. The cAMP content subsequently rises to 12% higher than control levels and then becomes indistinguishable from control values for the remainder of the maturation period.
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Thibier C, Mulner O, Ozon R. In vitro effects of progesterone and estradiol-17 beta on choleragen activated Xenopus oocyte adenylate cyclase. JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY 1982; 17:191-6. [PMID: 6287109 DOI: 10.1016/0022-4731(82)90121-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The basal cAMP levels of full-grown defoliculated Xenopus oocytes were shown to average 1.2 pmol per oocyte. Follicle cAMP concentration was not significantly different from that of denuded oocyte and was found, when expressed as unit of volume to be independent of follicle size. In vitro gonadotropin treatment of follicle does not affect cAMP accumulation. During the course of progesterone induced maturation we failed to detect any modification of the oocyte cAMP content. Cholera toxin treatment increased cAMP levels; estradiol-17 beta potentialized cholera toxin action and progesterone antagonized it. Estradiol-17 beta was also found to reduce the amount of cholera toxin necessary to inhibit 50% of the progesterone induced meiosis maturation.
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Schorderet-Slatkine S, Schorderet M, Baulieu EE. Cyclic AMP-mediated control of meiosis: effects of progesterone, cholera toxin, and membrane-active drugs in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1982; 79:850-4. [PMID: 6278498 PMCID: PMC345850 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.79.3.850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Progesterone depressed rapidly (50% at 1 min) and persistently cyclic AMP (cAMP) concentration that had been elevated by cholera toxin in Xenopus laevis oocytes. cAMP remained below 1 pmol per oocyte (mean basal level) for approximately 1 hr and thereafter rose to approximately 120% of control values, while germinal vesicle (nucleus) breakdown did not occur. In the absence of cholera toxin, progesterone treatment for 6 hr maintained cAMP concentration below the basal level (but not lower than 80%), and germinal vesicle breakdown occurred. Experiments in the presence of phosphodiesterase inhibitors suggested that progesterone modulates adenylate cyclase activity. The maturation promoting factor, which is formed after 3-5 hr of progesterone treatment and provokes germinal vesicle breakdown after its injection into untreated oocytes, also decreased cAMP concentration, an observation that may explain its "autoamplification." Nonsteroidal inducers of meiosis reinitiation (e.g., propranolol, methoxyverapamil, mersalyl) diminished the cholera toxin-mediated accumulation of cAMP, in contrast to compounds devoid of meiotic-inducing capacity and antagonist to progesterone action, such as gammexane (an inositol analogue) and 5'-deoxy-S-(2-methylpropyl)-5'-thioadenosine (a methylase inhibitor), that increased the nucleotide level. The fine control, suggested by the effects of small changes in cAMP levels, gives evidence of great sensitivity to a critical determinant governing meiotic cell division.
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Morrill GA, Ziegler D, Kostellow AB. The role of Ca2+ and cyclic nucleotides in progesterone initiation of the meiotic divisions in amphibian oocytes. Life Sci 1981; 29:1821-35. [PMID: 6118803 DOI: 10.1016/0024-3205(81)90513-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Dorée M, Kishimoto T, Le Peuch CJ, Demaille JG, Kanatani H. Calcium-mediated transduction of the hormonal message in meiosis reinitiation of starfish oocytes: modulation following injection of cholera toxin and cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Exp Cell Res 1981; 135:237-49. [PMID: 6273189 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(81)90159-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Adenosine 3':5' cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) binds to proteins present in the 100,000 g supernatant fractions of full-grown oocytes of Xenopus laevis. Optimal pH for the binding is 4.0. Two receptor binding sites have been characterized by density gradient centrifugation as peaks with sedimentation constants of 4.6 S and 5.9 S. The apparent dissociation constants for the two cyclic AMP binding sites are 7 nM and 40 nM. The total cyclic AMP binding capacity of oocyte cytosol is 15.8 +/- 2.2 fmoles/oocyte and remains constant during meiotic maturation induced by progesterone.
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Baltus E, Hanocq-Quertier J, Guyaux M. Adenylate cyclase and cyclic AMP-phosphodiesterase activities during the early phase of maturation in Xenopus laevis oocytes. FEBS Lett 1981; 123:37-40. [PMID: 6162679 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(81)80014-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity has been identified in full-grown Xenopus oocytes in vivo and in vitro. About 50% of the in vitro phosphodiesterase activity was present in the solution fraction and 35% in a partially purified membrane fraction. Both activities exhibited high substrate affinity (Km about 10(-6) M). Sucrose gradient fractionation revealed two forms of phosphodiesterase: a 5 S form (peak I) and a 6.5 S form (peak II). Treatment with trypsin led to the activation of the soluble enzyme with the transformation of peak II into peak I. Ethylene glycol bis (beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N'-tetraacetic acid, calcium dependent regulator, and Fluphenazine did not influence the enzyme activities suggesting that the oocyte phosphodiesterases were not Ca2+-dependent. Intact oocytes were induced to mature by exposure to progesterone; their phosphodiesterase activities and distribution tested in vitro were comparable to those of untreated oocytes.
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Hunt NH, Martin TJ. Cyclic nucleotide metabolism in tumours. AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1979; 9:584-99. [PMID: 231426 DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1979.tb03401.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Many hormones act by combining with cell surface receptors and stimulating adenylate cyclase activity. The cyclic AMP generated is the mediator of a number of cellular metabolic processes. Other processes may be influenced by changes in cyclic GMP levels. Although much evidence from cultured cells suggested that low cellular levels of cyclic AMP and high levels of cyclic GMP are a feature of rapid cell growth and of malignant transformation, review of the data reveals many inconsistencies. Thus in established tumours growing in vivo, for example, cyclic AMP levels appear to be unrelated to tumour growth rates. It seems that tumour cell cyclic AMP is more likely concerned with the regulation of tumour cell function than of growth. This would have implications for therapy, in that drugs which influence cyclic nucleotide metabolism could influence tumour cell function. The control of cyclic nucleotide production in normal and tumour cells is discussed, together with the possible ways in which abnormalities of this may occur.
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Ozon R, Bellé R, Huchon D, Mulner O. Roles of cyclic AMP and calcium in maturation of Xenopus laevis oocytes. JOURNAL OF STEROID BIOCHEMISTRY 1979; 11:709-13. [PMID: 226799 DOI: 10.1016/0022-4731(79)90004-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Early effect of progesterone on levels of cyclic adenosine 3‘:5‘-monophosphate in Xenopus oocytes. J Biol Chem 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37841-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Drury K. Method for the preparation of active maturation promoting factor (MPF) from in vitro matured oocytes of Xenopus laevis. Differentiation 1978; 10:181-6. [PMID: 207616 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.1978.tb00962.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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A method for the large scale extraction of Maturation Promoting Factor (MPF) from in vitro matured oocytes of Xenopus laevis is described. MPF has been previously described only as a component(s) of hormone-matured cytoplasm within amphibian oocytes (or eggs) which is able to induce the reinitiation of the meiotic process from late diplotene stage until second metaphase arrest, when microinjected into diplotene arrested (fully grown) recipient oocytes. Standard biochemical methods for the extraction and purification of this factor(s) haven been unsuccessful due to its extreme instability and sensitivity to dilution. The procedure is dependent upon the inclusion of sodium fluoride (NaF) in the extraction medium with its effect presumably due to its ability to inhibit phosphorprotein phosphatases. The successful preservation of MPF activity described in this report permits further attempts to be made to isolate and characterize this, to date, elusive cytoplasmic factor, which plays a key role in the complex cellular processes involved in the hormone-dependent differentiation of an oocyte into an egg.
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Morrill GA, Schatz F, Kostellow AB, Poupko JM. Changes in cyclic AMP levels in the amphibian ovarian follicle following progesterone induction of meiotic maturation. Effect of phosphodiesterase inhibitors and exogenous calcium on germinal vesicle breakdown. Differentiation 1977; 8:97-104. [PMID: 199516 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-0436.1977.tb00925.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Allende CC, Bravo R, Allende JE. Comparison of in vivo and in vitro properties of cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate phosphodiesterase of amphibian oocytes. J Biol Chem 1977. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)40212-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Speaker MG, Butcher FR. Cyclic nucleotide fluctuations during steroid induced meiotic maturation of frog oocytes. Nature 1977; 267:848-50. [PMID: 197413 DOI: 10.1038/267848a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Grunz H, Tiedemann H. Influence of cyclic nucleotides on amphibian ectoderm. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1977; 181:261-265. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00848425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/1976] [Accepted: 12/19/1976] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Theophylline, a competitive inhibitor of cAMP phosphodiesterase, inhibits the maturation of oocytes previously exposed to progesterone. Cyclic AMP levels remain constant both during normal maturation and in response to theophylline, even though the latter effectively inhibits phosphodiesterase activity in the oocyte. Thus, the inhibition is not attributable to elevated cAMP levels. Rather, we suggest that theophylline may exert its inhibitory effects on maturation either by reducing rates of protein synthesis or possibly through effects at the oocyte surface.
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- C M O'Connor
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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