蛋白激酶C_ζ对小鼠受精卵发育早期基因组转录活化的影响

为研究蛋白激酶Cζ (proteinkinaseCζ ,PKCζ)在小鼠受精卵细胞早期发育过程中对胚胎基因组活化影响 ,采用免疫印迹和细胞免疫荧光的方法 ,观察PKCζ的抑制剂对小鼠受精卵 1 细胞期G1和G2 不同时期小鼠受精卵基因组活化的影响 .小鼠 1 细胞期受精卵蛋白激酶C (PKC)的活性不断增加 ,并在G2 期达到最高 .PKC的抑制剂calphostinC可以明显抑制PKC的活性达 4 7% .同时calphostinC对受精卵 1 细胞期基因组的早期活化具有显著的抑制作用 (P <0 0 1) .在小鼠 1 细胞期受精卵的G2 期 ,具有活性的磷酸化PKCζ的含量明显多于G1期和卵母细胞MⅡ期 ,分别比它们高2 7%和 110 % .PKCζ的特异性抑制剂可以抑制受精卵 1 细胞期基因的转录和活化 (P <0 0 5 ) .实验结果表明 ,PKCζ参与了小鼠受精卵基因组早期转录的调控     

Overexpression of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) in Xeno-pus embryos activates maternal program of apoptosis as a "fail-safe" mechanism of early embryogenesis

In Xenopus, injection of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) mRNA into fertilized eggs or2-cell stage embryos induces massive cell dissociation and embryo-lysis at the early gastrula stage due toactivation of the maternal program of apoptosis. We injected SAMDC mRNA into only one of the animal side blastomeres of embryos at different stages of cleavage, and examined the timing of the onset of theapoptotic reaction. In the injection at 4- and 8-cell stages, a considerable number of embryos developed intotadpoles and in the injection at 16- and 32-cell stages, all the embryos became tadpoles, although tadpolesobtained were sometimes abnormal. However, using GFP as a lineage tracer, we found that descendant cellsof the blastomere injected with SAMDC mRNA at 8- to 32-cell stages are confined within the blastocoel atthe early gastrula stage and undergo apoptotic cell death within the blastocoel, in spite of the continueddevelopment of the injected embryos. These results indicate that cells overexpress     

Overexpression of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase.（SAMDC） in Xeno-pus embryos activates maternal program of apoptosm as a “fail-safe”mechanism of early embryogenesis

In Xenopus, injection of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (SAMDC) mRNA into fertilized eggs or 2-cell stage embryos induces massive cell dissociation and embryo-lysis at the early gastrula stage due toactivation of the maternal program of apoptosis. We injected SAMDC mRNA into only one of the animalside blastomeres of embryos at different stages of cleavage, and examined the timing of the onset of theapoptotic reaction. In the injection at 4-and 8-cell stages, a considerable number of embryos developed intotadpoles and in the injection at 16-and 32-cell stages, all the embryos became tadpoles, although tadpolesobtained were sometimes abnormal. However, using GFP as a lineage tracer, we found that descendant cellsof the blastomere injected with SAMDC mRNA at 8-to 32-cell stages are confined within the blastocoel atthe early gastrula stage and undergo apoptotic cell death within the blastocoel, in spite of the continued development of the injected embryos. These results indicate that cells overexpressed with SAMDC undergo apoptotic cell death consistently at the early gastrula stage, irrespective of the timing of the mRNA injection.We assume that apoptosis is executed in Xenopus early gastrulae as a “fall-safe“ mechanism to eliminate physiologically-severely damaged cells to save the rest of the embryo.     

蛋白激酶B在小鼠1-细胞期受精卵中活性及表达变化

蛋白激酶B(proteinkinaseB ,PKB)发现于 1991年 ,属于丝 苏氨酸蛋白激酶 .因其激酶活性区的氨基酸序列与蛋白激酶C (proteinkinaseC ,PKC)和蛋白激酶A (proteinkinaseA ,PKA)同源性分别为 73%和 6 8% ,因此命名为PKB ,或PKA和PKC相关激酶(relatedtheAandCkinase ,RACK) [1] .另外 ,PKB被证明为逆转录病毒的癌基因v akt编码的蛋白产物 ,因此PKB又称AKT[2 ] .PKB分子量 6 0kD ,目前已知分为PKBα、β、γ三种 .PKBα广泛存在于机体各组织中 ,其活性受多种信息物质调节 .PKBβ在卵巢癌、胰腺癌细胞中过表达 ,PKBγ在大…     

Hydrogen peroxide levels in mouse oocytes and early cleavage stage embryos developed in vitro or in vivo

We describe a fluorimetric method for measuring the level of H2O2 in individual mouse oocytes and early embryos. Levels of H2O2 are low but detectable in unfertilized oocytes recovered freshly from the female reproductive tract. The levels in early cleaving embryos (1-cell to 8-cell stages) immediately after recovery from the female tract seem to be slightly higher the later the stage examined. However, when embryos are cultured in vitro from the 1-cell or early 2-cell stage, H2O2 levels rise when the embryos reach the mid-2-cell stage and remain elevated until they enter the early 4-cell stage. No equivalent elevation of H2O2 is seen during the transition from 1-cell to 2-cell or from 4-cell to 8-cell stages. Embryos that are able to develop successfully in vitro, as well as those that show a developmental block at the 2-cell stage on culture in vitro, both show this rise in H2O2 levels after in vitro culture. The relationship between the rise in H2O2 and the '2-cell block' to development is discussed.