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Effects of protein kinase C activators on germinal vesicle breakdown and polar body emission of mouse oocytes 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Elayne A. Bornslaeger William T. Poueymirou Peter Mattei Richard M. Schultz 《Experimental cell research》1986,165(2):507-517
Protein phosphorylation mediated by cAMP-dependent protein kinase is instrumental in maintaining meiotic arrest of mouse oocytes. To assess whether protein phosphorylation mediated by calcium/phospholipid-dependent protein kinase (protein kinase C) might also inhibit the resumption of meiosis, we treated oocytes with activators of this enzyme. The active phorbol esters 12-O-tetra-decanoyl phorbol-13-acetate (TPA) and 4 beta-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate (4 beta-PDD) inhibited germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD), as did a more natural activator of protein kinase, C, sn-1,2-dioctanoylglycerol (diC8). An inactive phorbol ester, 4 alpha-phorbol 12,13-didecanoate (4 alpha-PDD), did not inhibit GVBD. We then examined whether protein kinase C activators inhibit a step in the cAMP-modulated pathway that regulates resumption of meiosis. TPA did not inhibit the maturation-associated decrease in oocyte cAMP. Microinjected heat-stable protein inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase failed to induce GVBD in the presence of TPA. Both TPA and diC8 partially inhibited specific changes in oocyte phosphoprotein metabolism that are tightly correlated with resumption of meiosis; these agents also induced the apparent phosphorylation of specific oocyte proteins. These results suggest that protein kinase C activators may inhibit resumption of meiosis by acting distal to a decrease in cAMP-dependent protein kinase activity, but prior to changes in oocyte phosphoprotein metabolism that are presumably required for resumption of meiosis. Finally, we compared the effects of db-cAMP and protein kinase C activators on polar body emission following GVBD. TPA, 4 beta-PDD or diC8, but not 4 alpha-PDD or db-cAMP, inhibited polar body emission in a dose-dependent manner. The morphology and cytology of oocytes in which polar body emission was inhibited by TPA or 4 beta-PDD differed from that of oocytes treated with diC8. Thirty to 60% of the former were round in shape and exhibited a clump of chromosomes but no spindle; the remainder were distended in shape and exhibited a metaphase I spindle. All oocytes treated with diC8, however, were round, had dispersed chromosomes, and no spindle. These results suggest that, in contrast to resumption of meiosis, polar body emission is inhibited by activation of protein kinase C but not cAMP-dependent protein kinase. 相似文献
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Anne S Rasmussen Henrik Lauridsen Christoffer Laustsen Bjarke G Jensen Steen F Pedersen Lars Uhrenholt Lene WT Boel Niels Uldbjerg Tobias Wang Michael Pedersen 《BMC physiology》2010,10(1):3
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In biomedical sciences, ex vivo angiography is a practical mean to elucidate vascular structures three-dimensionally with simultaneous estimation of intravascular volume. The objectives of this study were to develop a magnetic resonance (MR) method for ex vivo angiography and to compare the findings with computed tomography (CT). To demonstrate the usefulness of this method, examples are provided from four different tissues and species: the human placenta, a rice field eel, a porcine heart and a turtle. 相似文献7.
Paralogous origin of the red- and green-sensitive visual pigment genes in vertebrates 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The nucleotide sequence of the red-sensitive visual pigment gene, R007Af,
in the fish Astyanax fasciatus, from the initiation codon to the stop codon
of this gene, including introns, is 1,592 bp, making it the shortest visual
pigment gene known in vertebrates. Analysis of this and other homologous
sequence data suggests that vertebrates initially had two duplicate genes
and that each ancestor of Astyanax, human, and chicken independently
duplicated the gene in the process of developing their red-green color
vision. Furthermore, many extant red-green colorblind organisms may be
explained simply by the failure of achieving very specific nucleotide
substitutions at the three codon positions 180, 277, and 285, rather than
by the lack of duplicate loci.
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Unusual molecular evolution of an Adh pseudogene in Drosophila 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
Sullivan DT; Starmer WT; Curtiss SW; Menotti-Raymond M; Yum J 《Molecular biology and evolution》1994,11(3):443-458
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Supramolecular structures of peptide assemblies in membranes by neutron off-plane scattering: method of analysis 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
In a previous paper (Yang et al., Biophys. J. 75:641-645, 1998), we showed a simple, efficient method of recording the diffraction patterns of supramolecular peptide assemblies in membranes where the samples were prepared in the form of oriented multilayers. Here we develop a method of analysis based on the diffraction theory of two-dimensional liquids. Gramicidin was used as a prototype model because its pore structure in membrane in known. At full hydration, the diffraction patterns of alamethicin and magainin are similar to gramicidin except in the scale of q (the momentum transfer of scattering), clearly indicating that both alamethicin and magainin form pores in membranes but of different sizes. When the hydration of the multilayer samples was decreased while the bilayers were still fluid, the in-plane positions of the membrane pores became correlated from one bilayer to the next. We believe that this is a new manifestation of the hydration force. The effect is most prominent in magainin patterns, which are used to demonstrate the method of analysis. When magainin samples were further dehydrated or cooled, the liquid-like diffraction turned into crystal-like patterns. This discovery points to the possibility of investigating the supramolecular structures with high-order diffraction. 相似文献
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