Hormone-induced parthenogenetic activation of mature starfish oocytes |
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Authors: | A Picard M Dorée |
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Institution: | INSERM U.249 and CNRS-CRBM, 34033 Montpellier, Cedex, and Station Biologique, 29211 Roscoff, France |
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Abstract: | 1-Methyladenine, which has been previously shown to be the hormone responsible for meiosis reinitiation in starfish oocytes, triggers parthenogenetic activation when applied to matured starfish oocytes after emission of the second polar body and formation of the pronucleus. In Marthasterias glacialis and Asterias rubens oocytes parthenogenetic activation includes elevation of a fertilization membrane, cleavage and the formation of normal bipinnaria larvae. Activation is likely to result from 1-methyladenine interaction with the category of stereospecific membrane receptors involved in meiosis reinitiation, since structural requirements of this compound are identical for both biological responses. Appearance of oocyte responsiveness to 1-MeAde after, but not before emission of the second polar body cannot be accounted for by their increased sensitivity to intracellular Ca2+ at that time, although it is shown that Ca2+ mediates hormone effect in inducing parthenogenetic activation. Pretreatment of immature oocytes with the free hormone in excess strongly inhibits the 1-methyladenine-induced parthenogenetic activation of the oocytes when they have completed maturation.It is suggested that reappearance of 1-MeAde sensitivity when oocytes form a pronucleus depends either upon recruitment or new receptor units or on the reactivation of pre-existing inactivated receptors at this stage of oocyte maturation. |
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Keywords: | To whom reprint requests should be sent Address: Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology National Cancer Institute Bldg 10 Rm B1B 38 Bethesda MD 20205 USA |
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