期刊
EXPERIMENTAL AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE
卷 44, 期 10, 页码 615-621出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.3858/emm.2012.44.10.070
关键词
echinomycin; endothelin-2; gene expression regulation; gonadotropins; granulosa cells; hypoxia-inducible factor 1, alpha subunit; ovary; ovulation
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31101032, 31271255]
- Doctoral Foundation of Ministry of Education in China [20113503120002]
- Innovative Research Project of National Biology Experiment Center [2011LS017]
- Fujian Provincial Natural Science Foundation [2011J01144]
- Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Projects of Education Department [AJ11041]
Echinomycin is a small-molecule inhibitor of hypoxia-inducible factor-1 DNA-binding activity, which plays a crucial role in ovarian ovulation in mammalians. The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1 alpha-mediated endothelin (ET)-2 expressions contributed to ovarian ovulation in response to human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) during gonadotropin-induced superuvulation. By real-time RT-PCR analysis, ET-2 mRNA level was found to significantly decrease in the ovaries after echinomycin treatment, while HIF-1 alpha mRNA and protein expression was not obviously changed. Further analysis also showed that these changes of ET-2 mRNA were consistent with HIF-1 activity in the ovaires, which is similar with HIF-1 alpha and ET-2 expression in the granulosa cells with gonadotropin and echinomycin treatments. The results of HIF-1 alpha and ET-2 expression in the granulosa cells transfected with cis-element oligodeoxynucleotide (dsODN) under gonadotropin treatment further indicated HIF-1 alpha directly mediated the transcriptional activation of ET-2 during gonadotropin-induced superuvulation. Taken together, these results demonstrated that HIF-1 alpha-mediated ET-2 transcriptional activation is one of the important mechanisms regulating gonadotropin-induced mammalian ovulatory precess in vivo.
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